 | Lindley Murray - Oral reading - 1824 - 308 pages
...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...light, And o'er the dark, her silver mantle threw. 9. When Adam thus to Eve : "Fair consort, th' houc Of night, acd all thing* now relir'd to rest, Mind... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...almost wronging such a night as this. Ibid. Now glow'd the firmament With livid sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the...Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'dner peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Milton's Paradise Lost, b. 4.... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - History - 1824 - 396 pages
...amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires — Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest ; till the...Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveilM her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. j' THE DELUGE. I.(THE wickedness... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...sung ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led 605 The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...pleas'd • now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that led 605 The starry nost, rode brightest ; till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unvtil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve : " Fair... | |
 | George G. Carey - Astronomy - 1825 - 274 pages
...livery all things clad ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With livid sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest; till the...And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. MILTON. Venus is computed to be 68,518,044 miles distant from the sun ; she moves at the rate of 76,000 miles... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...plaintive descant sung. Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the...o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.— —MILTON Night, sable power ! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...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...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve : " Fair consort, th' bout Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind... | |
 | Augustus Toplady - 1825 - 484 pages
...fine description of her, under this title : -Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest : 'till the...length Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, v And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw *." Again : " The sun was sunk ; and, after him, the star... | |
 | William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 382 pages
...amorous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest ; till the...Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveii'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair... | |
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... 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... 
