 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
 | Bible - 1827 - 294 pages
...gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. 597 Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence...nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : Now glowed the firmament With... | |
 | General reader - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1827 - 246 pages
...ought to do towards them. — Palmer's Aphorisms. EVENING. Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied;...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 vivid... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English literature - 1827 - 276 pages
...Mam and Eve, retiring to rest. Now came still ev'ning on, and twilight gray Had in her sober liv'ry all things clad. -, Silence accompanied ; for beast...nests Were slunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rous descant sung : Silence was pleas d. Now glow'd the firmament With living... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 262 pages
...and Eve, retiring to rest. NOW came still ev'ning on', and twilight gray Had in her sober liv'ry', all things clad*. Silence accompanied* ; for beast*...to their grassy couch*, these to their nests', Were sunk*; all but the wakeful nightingale*. She', all night long', her am'rous descant sung* : Silence... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 308 pages
...on, and twilight grj^ Had in her sober liv'ry all things clad, Silence accompanied; for beast and h"^ They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk; all but the wakeful mghtingale. She all night long her am'rous descant sung: Silence wL pie Jd. Now glow'd the firmament... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...and Eve'& Conversation and Evening Worship. — MILTON * NOW came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in 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... | |
 | Zoology - 1829 - 494 pages
...poets have in all ages made it the theme of their verses ; a few of these we cannot resist giving : -Beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these...nests, Were slunk ; all but the wakeful Nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased. MILTON. And in the violet-embroider'd... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...eternal Spring. EVENING CONVERSATION BETWEEN ADAM AND EVE. Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence...nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glow'd the firmament With... | |
 | James Bolton - 1830 - 382 pages
...speaks of it as the " wakeful bird," which is repeated in his description of the approach of evening. " Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to...nests Were slunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung." 29 " Why sleep'st thou Eve ? now is the pleasant time,... | |
 | Aaron Arrowsmith - Geography - 1831 - 970 pages
...outermost circle. Now, supposing the Earth to be at A, the Sun will appear to us to be at Libra ; and, ' Now came still Evening on, and Twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad ; — — — now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host,... | |
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