 | Richard Green Moulton - 1915 - 556 pages
...words,' "Expectation stood in horror"; or again, where the exquisite picture of on-coming evening — 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... | |
 | Christian Gauss - 1915 - 208 pages
...was discussing the question of what is poetry with a group of us one day, and brought up the lines: "Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad," and was asking us why this was good pqetry. They say the masses don't appreciate... | |
 | Edwin Watts Chubb - 1915 - 330 pages
...It occurs in the well-known description of the approach of night, in the Fourth Book, beginning, — Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad, etc. In the verse describing the song of the nightingale there is in the French translation... | |
 | Nellie Elfa Turner - 1915 - 536 pages
...— A recess sheltered or covered with foliage. Secret bower. — Are owls' nests easy to find ? 17. 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... | |
 | 1908 - 748 pages
...to ten feet in length. The number of rivets already driven was in the hundreds of thousands. Evening 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 grassy couch, these to their... | |
 | Julian Willis Abernethy - 1916 - 604 pages
...subsequent poets. Something of its peculiar enchantment may be felt in this description of evening: — 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... | |
 | 1908 - 550 pages
...when too young to understand, would recite Milton's description of evening from the lines beginning, "Now came still evening on and Twilight gray, had in her sober livery All things clad," to the end, with the keenest joy in the musical sounds. The same child recited many... | |
 | James Champlin Fernald - 1917 - 352 pages
...America shall hold her place in the family of nations — EDWARD EVERETT Washington Abroad and at Home. 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... | |
 | Edwin Lillie Miller - 1917 - 690 pages
...irriguous valley spread her store, Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose." (Book IV, 1. 236-256) " 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 'heir... | |
 | John Milton - 1917 - 660 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, 600 They to their grassy couch, these to... | |
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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... 
