 | Elizabeth Isabella Spence - 1811 - Liczba stron: 268
...nightingales innumerable, and •• — The moori. Rising in cloudless majesty, at length, A parent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." 89 Who is there, possessed of a reflecting mind, that can possibly contemplate the beautiful works... | |
 | Janus (Secundus) - 1812 - Liczba stron: 222
...Eclogue to Mr. Juhnson. Milton too has a similar expression, in these beautifully descriptive lines : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. ^^ «. See, in.her hand An ebon wand, How his lov'd sister guides * Her silver car, Sweet wanderer!... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1812 - Liczba stron: 378
...wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the- firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that...clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd ht-r peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve: " Fair consort,... | |
 | Janus (Secundus) - 1812 - Liczba stron: 212
...Edogue to Mr. Johnson. Milton too has a similar expression, in these beautifully descriptive lines : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent quceu unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. MILTON. PAR. LOST, BOOK... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - Liczba stron: 342
...With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that led 605 The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Uising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd...mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. *' Fair consort, th' hour Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest, 611 Mind us of like repose, since God hath set... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1813 - Liczba stron: 276
...wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rons deseant sung : Silenee was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that...starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in elouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, A'.id o'er the dark her silver... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - Liczba stron: 424
...wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sungf : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that...mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair consort th' hour Gf night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind us of like repose ; since God hath set... | |
 | 1814 - Liczba stron: 752
...House ai half past three on Tuesday morning. Scarcely had the moon risen in unclouded majesty — " Unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark, her silver mantle threw," than the Bridge and the Royal Booth «•.•:•: illuminated, and the Chinese lantherns here and... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1815 - Liczba stron: 388
...after s \ conjunction they are turned to the ivrtt. "How beautifully is the moon described by JMilton : -till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Bookiv. line 606. Charles. I see the figure is intended to show that the moon's orbit is elliptical... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - Liczba stron: 276
...long her ;:")Yrms descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living Saphircs : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen unveil'd tier peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve : " Fair consort,,... | |
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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 descant sung; Silence... 
