 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), John Lauris Blake - 1826 - 308 ページ
...wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; _ Silence was pleas'd ; now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires Hesperus, that...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. so that water there would be carried off in the shape of steam, for by experiments with the thermometer,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 224 ページ
...nightingale. She, all night long, her am'rous descant sung; Silence was picas d. Now giow'd the firmament O With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led The starry...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. 2. When Adam thus to Eve: " Fair consort, th" hour Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest, 3.... | |
 | Lindley Murray, John Walker - 1826 - 314 ページ
...wakeful nightingale. She. all night long. her am'rous descant sung: Silence was pleas'd. Now giow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that...unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silrer mantle threw. . . Wh.'ti Adam thus to Eve : " Fair consort, th' boor Of night, and all things... | |
 | Thomas Crofton Croker - 1826 - 366 ページ
...sat down under the moat to rest himself, and began looking mournfully enough upon the moon, which " Rising in clouded majesty, at length, .Apparent Queen^...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." Presently there rose a wild strain of unearthly melody upon the ear of little Lusmore ; he listened,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 ページ
...wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd Let Sponis tremble— A. What? that tiling majcstv, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 264 ページ
...VVith living sapphires : Hesperus, that led Ihe starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Wising m clouded majesty, at length. Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver-mantle threw. of • "L am thns to Eve : " Fair consort, th' tour 01 : night, and all things... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 262 ページ
...wakeful nightingale*. She', all night long', her am'rous descant sung* : Silence was pleas'd*. Now giow'd the firmament With living sapphires* : Hesperus',...threw*. When Adam thus to Eve* : " Fair consort', th' hour Of night', and all things nowretir'd to rest', Mind us of like repose* ; since God hath set... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 276 ページ
...wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rous descant sung : Silence was pleas d. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that...mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve : " Fair consort, th' hour Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind us of like repose ; since God hath set... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1827 - 494 ページ
...wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires — Hesperus,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. THE DELUGE. 1. THE wickedness of mankind had rapidly increased Were they permitted to remain in Paradise... | |
 | General reader - 1827 - 246 ページ
...She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd; now glow'd the firmament With vivid sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. — Milton. GAY. WHO RIGHTLY CALLED. Whom call we gay] That honour has been long The boast of mere... | |
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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 descant sung; Silence... 
