 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...as now light dispels the dark. DISCOURSE BETWEEN ADAM AND EVE ON RETIRING TO REST. BY TRE SAME. A ow came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her...all things clad; Silence accompanied ; for beast and hird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk. all hut the wakeful nightingale... | |
 | Sir John Carr - Denmark - 1806 - 342 pages
...oar, and the carol of the distant boatmen ; in the language of the divine Milton : " Now comfe stHl evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad : Silence accompanied ; for beasi and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk- — — . now glowed... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...him there Arraying with reflected purple' and gold 596 The clouds that on his western throne attend. Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in...things clad; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, 600 They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ;... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 448 pages
...dashing of the oar, and the carol of the distant boatmen ; in the language of the divine Milton : " Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in...their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk now glowed the firmament With living saphires." Seated upon a rock, we for a long time contemplated... | |
 | John Sabine - Elocution - 1810 - 308 pages
...the hope he feels not, or with zeal To combat fears that e'en the pious feel ? CRABBE. Moon Light. Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in...all night long her amorous descant sung; " ' Silence Silence was pleas'd : now glov/d tte 'firmament With living sapphire; Hesperus, that led The starry... | |
 | 1810 - 482 pages
...gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Hiid in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy conch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1810 - 262 pages
...men, and guide the state." weifsnxjtt, SECTION V. DISCOURSE BETWEEN ADAM AND EVE, RETIRING TO HEST" Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nesti Were slunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her am'rous descant sung : ,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 662 pages
...all things dad. Silence accompanied : for beast, and bird, They to their grassy couch, Ihese to Iheir 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 sapphires. Hesperus,... | |
 | Richard Hurd - Theology, Doctrinal - 1811 - 374 pages
...Milton has given a paraphrase of this passage, but very much below his original, Now came still ev'ning on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompany' d— • . . . ' i . The striking part of Tasso's picture, is, " Night's bringing in Silence... | |
 | Richard Hurd - Theology, Doctrinal - 1811 - 408 pages
...the English poet not only personixes, but employs in a very becoming office : Now came still ev'ning on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad. Every body will observe a little blemish, in this fine couplet. He should not have used the epithet... | |
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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... 
