| John Milton - 1826 - 540 páginas
...greete " The dawning day, &c." DUNSTER. Ver. 282. from his grassy couch] So, in Par. Lost, B. iv. 600. " for beast and bird, " • They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, " Were slunk." THYER. Milton might perhaps remember Lucretius's expression, " Herba cubile praebebat,"... | |
| General reader - 1827 - 246 páginas
...ought to do towards them. — Palmer's Aphorisms. EVENING. Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied;...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... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1827 - 262 páginas
...and Eve, retiring to rest. NOW came still ev'ning on', and twilight gray Had in her sober liv'ry', all things clad*. Silence accompanied* ; for beast*...bird', They to their grassy couch*, these to their nests', Were sunk*; all but the wakeful nightingale*. She', all night long', her am'rous descant sung*... | |
| William Scott - 1829 - 420 páginas
...and Eve'& Conversation and Evening Worship. — MILTON * NOW came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad. Silence accompanied...and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nest Were sunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 páginas
...eternal Spring. EVENING CONVERSATION BETWEEN ADAM AND EVE. Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence...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... | |
| James Bolton - 1830 - 382 páginas
...speaks of it as the " wakeful bird," which is repeated in his description of the approach of evening. " 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." 29... | |
| Aaron Arrowsmith - 1831 - 970 páginas
...outermost circle. Now, supposing the Earth to be at A, the Sun will appear to us to be at Libra ; and, ' Now came still Evening on, and Twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad ; — — — now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host,... | |
| John Milton - 1831 - 306 páginas
...and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, 600 Thejt4ftJihJeJ^grassj_c,o•up•h!-t}iCSe"tJTIieir nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale... | |
| Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 páginas
...and gold The clouds, that on his western throne attend. Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence...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... | |
| 1833 - 444 páginas
...the variety of numbers, than that of Milton : " Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had m her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied...and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were sunk, all but the wakeful nightingale: She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence... | |
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