 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 descant sung : Silence was pleased. Now...  The divine comedy, tr. by H.W. Longfellow - Page 439by Dante Alighieri - 1867Full view - About this book
 | 1836 - 558 pages
...nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased ; now glowed the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that led The starry...host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded mnjosty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 402 pages
...still. 266 She all night long her amorous descant sung, Silence was pleased : now glowed the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the inoon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 524 pages
...nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry...Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil 'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve : —... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry...Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'dher peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve :— "... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pages
...nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry...Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unyeil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve :—... | |
 | Heinrich Mutschmann - 1924 - 80 pages
...the effect of sound apart from the sense. 598 came (No 40). 604 . . . Now glowed the firmament 605 With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry...peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw . . . Living sapphires for growing sapphires is a highly ingenious substitution ! XIV. Adam and Eve's... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1977 - 308 pages
...itself recalls a particular moment in Paradise Lost: Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the Firmament With living Sapphires: Hesperus that led The starry...Rising in clouded Majesty, at length Apparent Queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her Silver Mantle threw. [IV: 604-609] This was a favorite... | |
 | John Milton - 1994 - 630 pages
...nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung: Silence was pleased: now glowed the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry...unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mandc threw; When Adam thus to Eve: 'Fair consort, th' hour 610 Of night, and all things now retired... | |
 | Raphael - 1996 - 264 pages
...Ha.l in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence was pleased : now glow'd the firmament With livid sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest ; till the moon Hising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unvcil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
 | Raphael - 1996 - 264 pages
...Ha.l in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence was pleased : now glow'd the firmament With livid sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest ; till the moon Hising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unvcil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
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