 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1853 - 196 pages
...read suecess in every flashing eve. HG BELL. Reduce the following from inverted to direct order: — Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad. — MILToN. From tent to tent the impaticnt warrior flics. — DARwIN. Not a drum... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 474 pages
...left him there Arraying with reflected purple arid gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. -^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... | |
 | William Russell - 1854 - 398 pages
..."Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery 'all things clad." Read thus, "Now came still evening on and twilight gray — had in her sober livery," &c. "And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser rolling rapidly." Read, "And dark as winter was the flow... | |
 | Herschel S. Porter - 1854 - 412 pages
...earth. How beautiful the description given of the approach of evening by the author of Paradise Lost: " 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... | |
 | 1854 - 850 pages
...heart rebounds. Contrast with this another picture of night, strongly similar, yet how dînèrent :— 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1854 - 534 pages
...him there, 595 Arraying with reflected purple and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad : Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, 600 They to their grassy couch, these to... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1854 - 416 pages
...heart rebounds. Contrast with this another picture of night, strongly similar, yet how different : — 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... | |
 | 1850 - 358 pages
...His description of the evening in Paradise, is as exquisite a gem of verse as the language contains. "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... | |
 | L. T. Covell - 1855 - 256 pages
...thyself, for man is the proper study of mankind ; but presume thou not to scan God. 1NVERSE ORDER. " Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad." — Milton. NATURAL ORDER. Still evening came on now ; and gray twilight had clad... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 564 pages
...left him there Arraying with reflected purple and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. 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... | |
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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... 
