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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... "
The Select Works of Mrs. Ellis: Comprising the Women of England, Wives of ... - Page 42
by Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1843
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the ...

William Scott - 1819 - 366 pages
...how great ! IX. — Evening in Paradise described. 4dam and Eve's Conversation and Evening Worship. NOW came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery alt things clad. Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 1

John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...left him there Arraying with reflected purple and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. e promis'd fruit Lies yet a little embryo, unperceiv'd Within its cr all dungs clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - 1820 - 422 pages
...— Evrning in paradise described. Adam and Eve's Cun-utrtaliun and Evrmng lVi>r.*ffip. — MILTON, NOW came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clid. Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, . They to their grassy couch, these to their...
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Conversations on Natural Philosophy: In which the Elements of that Science ...

Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1821 - 366 pages
...she is then called Hesperus, or the evening star. Do you recollect tho«e beautiful lines of Milton : 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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Paradise Lost: A Poem, Volume 1

John Milton - 1821 - 226 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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The Historical Reader: Designed for the Use of Schools and Families, on a ...

John Lauris Blake - 1824 - 396 pages
...remain ia Varadlse J---19. How wore they prevented from returning into it? AN EVENING IN PARADISE, 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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Conversations on Poetry:: Intended for the Amusement and Instruction of Children

Author of the Buxton diamonds - 1824 - 160 pages
...morn, in russet mantle clad. Walks o'er the dews of yon high eastern hill.' Arid this likewise : ' ' Now came still evening on, and twilight gray • Had in her sober livery all things clad.' • " Just think of the gradual change that takes place in the appearance of yonder...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 3

John Milton - 1824 - 468 pages
...effectual beams Not dissimilar is the justly admired description of evening coming on, Par. Lost, iv. 598. Now came still Evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad. Where see the notes on Milton's frequent notice of the twilight gray. The Roman poets...
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Laconics: Or Instructive Miscellanies, Selected from the Best Authors ...

General reader - 1827 - 246 pages
...Christian religion, to behave ourselves as we ought to do towards them. — Palmer's Aphorisms. 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...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the ...

William Scott - 1829 - 420 pages
...IX. — Evening in Paradise describzit. Adam and Eve'& Conversation and Evening Worship. — MILTON * 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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