Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" 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... "
The Select Works of Mrs. Ellis: Comprising the Women of England, Wives of ... - Page 42
by Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1843
Full view - About this book

Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...dow'r, th' adopted clusters, to adorn His barren leaves. [Evening in Paradae.] [From the üàòå.] comfort from his looks. A largess universal, like the sun, Hi« lib all things clad ; Silence accompanied : for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their...
Full view - About this book

Paradise Lost: In Twelve Parts. Night Thoughts on Life, Death and ...

John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 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, 6OO They to their grassy couch, these to...
Full view - About this book

The Hemans Reader for Female Schools: Containing Extracts in Prose and Poetry

Timothy Stone Pinneo - 1847 - 502 pages
...gathered round us by thy look of rest ; . Thou bring'st the child, too, to the mother's breast. BTROJT 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...
Full view - About this book

Elements of Literature, Or, An Introduction to the Study of Rhetoric and ...

E. A. ANSLEY - 1849 - 288 pages
...drowsy night," " musing midnight," &c. " O pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth." — Shakspeare. " 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 coach, these to their...
Full view - About this book

Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 17

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1849 - 608 pages
...comes forth sweetness." Here is one of such " dulcedines veruc" — the sweetness of a strong man : " Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd ;"for beast and bird, They to their graspy oonch, these to their...
Full view - About this book

Paradise Lost: In Twelve Parts

John Milton - 1849 - 650 pages
...him there, 695 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...
Full view - About this book

Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 26

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1849 - 688 pages
...horizon. Such a night had the blind poet in his mind's eye when he composed those beautiful lines : — " 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...
Full view - About this book

The Token of Friendship: A Gift Book for the Holidays ...

Bradford Kinney Peirce, Bradford Kinney Pierce - 1850 - 360 pages
...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...
Full view - About this book

Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing ...

Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 472 pages
...science which treats of language is called Grammar. Writing is the art of making thoughts visible. Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad. The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked...
Full view - About this book

Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing ...

Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 468 pages
...science which treats of language is called Grammar. Writing is the art of making thoughts visible. Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad. The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF