 | Beautiful garment - Fall of man - 1850 - 164 pages
...all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in cloudy majesty, at length, Apparent queen, nnveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 488 pages
...subordinate them to itself while it stands forth as a head : ' How glowed the firmament With living sapphires ! Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode...Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent Queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.' Having laid this down as a... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1851 - 392 pages
...night long | her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : | now glowed the firmament With living sapphires ; | Hesperus that led •(•The starry...Rising in clouded majesty, | at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark | her silver mantle threw." The csesural pause in anapcestic... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1851 - 782 pages
...all night long her amorous descant sung. Silence was pleased. Now glowed the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus that led The starry host rode...Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent Queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.' It caunot be seriously denied... | |
 | English language - 1851 - 278 pages
...all night long, her am'rous descant sung. Silence was pleased. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode...Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil' d her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw — When Adam thus to Eve :... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 524 pages
...subordinate them to itself while it stands forth as a head : " How glowed the firmament With living sapphires ! Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode...Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent Queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." Having laid this down as a... | |
 | John Milton - Authors, English - 1851 - 428 pages
...night long her amorous deseant sung ; s Silenee was pleased : b now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led "The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in elouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 pages
...descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glowed the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus, II that led The starry host, rode brightest ; till the...Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. 2. When Adam thus to Eve :... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : Now glowed the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus ', that led The starry host,...till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length 505 Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. ADAM. When... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 322 pages
...all night long her am'rous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Kising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
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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 descant* sung; Silence was pleased: now... 
