 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...  Annual Report of the Commissioners ... - Page 2711851Full view - About this book
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...Adam and Eve's Conversation and Evening Worship. NOW came still evening on, and twilight gray Had itt her sober livery all things clad. Silence accompanied...and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nest Were sunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence... | |
 | English literature - 1832 - 698 pages
...evening on ; — and twilight gray Has in her sober livery ;ill things clad : Silence accompanies; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Are slunk — all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sings : Silence... | |
 | John Milton - 1823 - 306 pages
...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 clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and hird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, "Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...left him there Arraying with reflected purple and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. ires, And unawares Morality expires. Nor public flame,...shine : Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! ; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the firmament With living... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...unveil'dner peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Milton's Paradise Lost, b. 4. Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in...nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale. Ibid. Tunes sweetest his love-labour'd song ; now reigns Full-orb'd the moon, and with more pleasing... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - History - 1824 - 396 pages
...prevented from returning into it? AN EVENING IN PARADISE, Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had, in her sober livery, all things clad ; Silence...They 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.... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...roll'd i Diurnal ; or this less voluble earth. ¡ By shorter flight to th' east, had left him there, 595 Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in...clad : Silence accompanied ; for beast, and bird, 60O They to their grassy couch, these to their nests. Were slunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 572 pages
...description of evening, iv. 508. nothing can be more charming than what is said of the nightingale. Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to...nests Were slunk; all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; • Silence was pleas'd. In that tender speech of Eve's... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 580 pages
...description of evening, iv. 598. nothing can be more charming than what is said of the nightingale. Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to...nests Were slunk; all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd. In that tender speech of Eve's to... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...is a circumstance which adds great beauty to his description. I have often thought that the weakness They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With... | |
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