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... English Composition and Rhetoric - Seite 190von Alexander Bain - 1888Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| John Milton - 1824 - 572 Seiten
...description of evening, iv. 508. nothing can be more charming than what is said of the nightingale. Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to...night long her amorous descant sung; • Silence was pleas'd. In that tender speech of Eve's to Adam, iv. 639. With thee converging I forget all time, &c.... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 580 Seiten
...description of evening, iv. 598. nothing can be more charming than what is said of the nightingale. Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to...all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd. In that tender speech of Eve's to Ail ui ii, iv. 639. With thee conversing I forget all time,... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 646 Seiten
...is a circumstance which adds great beauty to his description. I have often thought that the weakness They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were...night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led 605 The starry host,... | |
| John Lauris Blake - 1824 - 396 Seiten
...prevented from returning into it? AN EVENING IN PARADISE, Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had, in her sober livery, all things clad ; Silence...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 was pleased.... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 Seiten
...roll'd i Diurnal ; or this less voluble earth. ¡ By shorter flight to th' east, had left him there, 595 Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in...clad : Silence accompanied ; for beast, and bird, 60O They to their grassy couch, these to their nests. Were slunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1824 - 308 Seiten
...twilight gray V, Had in her sober livery all things clad. Silence accompanied ; fur beast and hird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests,...Were slunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale, She all mght long her am'rous descaot sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires:... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 676 Seiten
...not, so scrupulous was he in declaring for any system of philosophy. 598. Now came still evening on, Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, &c.] This is the first evening in the poem ; for the action of the preceding books lying out of the... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 Seiten
...Mam and Eve, retiring to r«*f. Now came still ev'ningon, and twilight gray Had in her sober liv'ry all things clad. Silence accompanied ; for beast and...but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus,... | |
| George G. Carey - 1825 - 274 Seiten
...different; and it is said that Pythagoras was the first person who discovered that they were the same. Now came still evening on ; and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With livid sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode... | |
| John Lauris Blake - 1825 - 404 Seiten
...Silence accompanied ; for beast 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 was pleased. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires — Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest ;... | |
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