| Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 pages
...their joyous pranks a mystery still, Lest glaring day should do their secrets ill. MILTON'S "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... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand, Charles Ignatius White - 1856 - 780 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... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...exeell'd by manly grace, And wisdom, which alone is truly fair. nmte L*t, iv. MI. EVENING IN PARADISE. Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all tilings clad: Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their... | |
| 1856 - 796 pages
...But we cannot leave the Fourth Book without quoting the beautiful lines on the approach of evening. " Now came still evening on, and 'twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad : Meneo accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their... | |
| John Wilson, James Hogg, John Gibson Lockhart - 1866 - 508 pages
...that kind of imagination which consists in infused animation and undefined incipient impersonation. "Now came still evening on," and "Twilight gray had in her sober livery all things clad" " Silence accompanied." . • Shepherd. You say richt, sir — three impersonifications.... | |
| John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pages
...Book iv. Line 506. Imparadised in one another's arms. Paradise Lost— Continued. Book iv. Line 598. Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad. Book iv. Line 639. With thee conversing, I forget all time ; All seasons and their... | |
| Evening recreations, John Hampden Gurney - 1856 - 318 pages
...furnishes a good example of skill and variety in the cadences. Let us read it once again with this view. "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... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...excell'd by manly grace, And wisdom, which alone is truly fiui. Fared* io< IV. 4«. EVENING IN PARADISE, f 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 grnssy couch, these to their... | |
| Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 pages
...the poet's toil, I slight thee not, but make thee welcome still. COWPER. 6. DESCRIPTION OP 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... | |
| William Cowper, James Robert Boyd - 1857 - 476 pages
...Nothing worth : " To show the world how Garrick did not act." Book vi. 677. 243. Came, evening, <fec. : " Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied her, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to... | |
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