 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 divine comedy, tr. by H.W. Longfellow - Page 439by Dante Alighieri - 1867Full view - About this book
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 328 pages
...ev'ning on, and twilight gray B:,-l in her sober liv'ry all things clad. S;!ence accompanied ; forheast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk; all hut the wakeful nightingale. She all uight long heram'rous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd... | |
 | Richard Lobb - 1817 - 430 pages
...poetry, I know not one superior, for pleasing imagery, and variety of numbers, than that of Milton: " Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in...wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous deseant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glowed the firmament With living sapphirs: Hesperus, that... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 pages
...it, as now light dispels the dark. DISCOURSE BETWEEN ADAM AND EVE ON RETIRING TO REST. BY THE SAME. Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in...and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nest* Were, slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence... | |
 | William Scott - 1817 - 416 pages
...great ! ,• IX. — Evening in Paradise described. Adam, and f Conversation and Evening' Worship. — NOW came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in...livery all things clad. Silence accompanied ; for beast ami hire They to their grassy couch, these to their nest, Were sunk, all but the wakeful nightingale... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - 1818 - 330 pages
...of those exquisitely beautiful lines of our great poet: Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence...They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, ,Wefe-slunk,-all lint.I lie wakeful nightingale; sKe. all night lonj£her amorous descant sung; Silence... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - 1818 - 374 pages
...of those exquisitely beautiful Hues of our great poet: Now came stHl evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence...They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, H Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale , She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence... | |
 | Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - 1818 - 894 pages
...evening, and the retiring of all animals to their repose : Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, Tn. y to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale. She all oiglit long her amorous descant sung. When EVP passed the irksome night preceding her fall, she, in... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 426 pages
...This only is the witchcraft I have us'd. Section 111. DISCOURSE BETWEEN ADAM AND EVE RETIRING TO REST. Now came still evening on, and Twilight gray Had in...night long her amorous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glovv'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - 1819 - 370 pages
...They to .their grassy couch, these to their nests, II Were dunk, all but Hie wakeful nightingale j She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glowed the firmament With living saphires : Hesperus that led The starry host rode brightest, till the moon Rising... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 434 pages
...— that G OD hew great ! IX. — liventng In paradise described. Mam and Mve's i/:. — MILTON.NOW came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her...things clad. Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird,. * t They to their grassy couch, these to their nest Where sunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She... | |
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