 | Herschel S. Porter - 1854 - 412 pages
...earth. How beautiful the description given of the approach of evening by the author of Paradise Lost: " Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in...her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased ; now glowed the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till... | |
 | 1850 - 358 pages
...His description of the evening in Paradise, is as exquisite a gem of verse as the language contains. "Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had...her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased ; now glowed the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 pages
...evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied; for be:ist and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their...firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that led The stnrry host, rode brightest; till the moon Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd... | |
 | 1851 - 360 pages
...description of the evening in Paradise, is as exquisite a gem of verse as the language contains. " Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in...to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slnnk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was... | |
 | 1854 - 850 pages
...heart rebounds. Contrast with this another picture of night, strongly similar, yet how dînèrent :— 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.... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 564 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 amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glowed the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...reflected purple and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend Now came still evening on, 2 and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things...her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased: now glowed the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till... | |
 | 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...amorous descant sung : || Silence was pleased. ||] Now glowed the firmament With living sapphires: || Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,... | |
 | Julian Willis Abernethy - 1916 - 604 pages
...subsequent poets. Something of its peculiar enchantment may be felt in this description of evening: — Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in...her amorous descant sung: Silence was pleased. Now glowed the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till... | |
 | John Milton - 1917 - 700 pages
...purple and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. (Now came still Evening on, and Twilight Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence...her amorous descant sung Silence was pleased. Now glowed the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till... | |
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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... 
