 | Edward Wilson Landor - 1836 - 614 pages
...long her amorous descant sung : Silence was pleased. Now glowed the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." . Milton certainly is the... | |
 | 1836 - 558 pages
...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... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pages
...long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...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 :—... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...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 :— "... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 524 pages
...long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...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 : —... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1837 - 358 pages
...sung ; Silence was pleas'd ; now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that led Tho starry host, rode brightest, till the moon Rising...clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw BO that water there would be carried... | |
 | Raymond Dexter Havens - 1922 - 746 pages
...sublime. Wide the pale Deluge floats, with silver Waves. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her siher mantle threw. Descends the ethereal force, and with... | |
 | 1909 - 502 pages
...night long her amorous descant sung: Silence was pleased. Now glowed the firmament With living Saphirs; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw; When Adam thus to Eve : —... | |
 | Heinrich Mutschmann - 1924 - 80 pages
...apart from the sense. 598 came (No 40). 604 . . . Now glowed the firmament 605 With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw . . . Living sapphires for growing... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1977 - 308 pages
...particular moment in Paradise Lost: Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the Firmament With living Sapphires: Hesperus that led The starry Host, rode brightest,...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 passage... | |
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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... 
