 | Rev. Samuel Wood - 1833 - 224 pages
...rendered the governor more secure than he ought to have been, considering its importance. (Restrictive.) Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to...nests, Were slunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale. Milton. (Exceptive.) Let there be no noise made, my gentle friends, Unless some dull and favourable... | |
 | 1833 - 444 pages
...the variety of numbers, than that of Milton : " Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had m her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied...to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were sunk, all but the wakeful nightingale: She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased:... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...reflected purple and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things...all night long her amorous descant sung: Silence was pleased. Now glowed the firmament With living Saphirs; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,... | |
 | Stuart Feder - Music - 1992 - 444 pages
...contrasts curiously with the homespun sentimentality of the boy Charlie Ivés: Now came still evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for the beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests were slunk. (Evening)12 One evening... | |
 | Oscar George Sonneck - Electronic journals - 1924 - 734 pages
...were he on a desert island, far from concert-halls and opera-houses. You remember Milton's lines : All but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased. You remember, too, Tennyson's: I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing.... | |
 | Edward Kimber - British - 1998 - 146 pages
...Stranger much. (Kimber's note) 35. Paradise Lost, book 4, lines 598-609: Now came still Ev'ning on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober Livery all things...clad; Silence accompanied, for Beast and Bird, They to thir grassy Couch, these to thir Nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful Nightingale; She all night long... | |
 | Philip Lambert - Music - 1997 - 332 pages
...silent - now (in the present) pleasing Silence? Figure 3.3 Text comparison for "Evening" Milton: [Ivés: Now came still Eveningon, and Twilight gray had in...sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for the beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests were slunk, all but the wakeful... | |
 | Judith A. Stein - Bible - 1999 - 180 pages
...all things clad; Silence accompanied, for Beast and Bird, They to thir grassie Couch, these to thir Nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful Nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; With living Saphirs: Hesperus that led Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the Firmament The starrie Host,... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - Poetry - 2003 - 388 pages
...things clad; Silence accompanied, for Beast and Bird, BOH They to thir grassy Couch, these to thir Nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful Nightingale;...Firmament With living Sapphires: Hesperus that led ens The starry Host, rode brightest, till the Moon Rising in clouded Majesty, at length Apparent Queen... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend: Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird,0 600 They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale;... | |
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Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous... 
