 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 728 psl.
...all animals to their repose : Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy much, these to their nests, Were slunk ; all but the wakeful...nightingale. She all night long her amorous descant sung. When Ere passed the irksome night preceding her fall, she, in a dream, imagines herself thus reproached... | |
 | Richard Lobb - 1817 - 430 psl.
...poetry, I know not one superior, for pleasing imagery, and variety of numbers, than that of Milton: " Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in...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... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 psl.
...it, as now light dispels the dark. DISCOURSE BETWEEN ADAM AND EVE ON RETIRING TO REST. BY THE SAME. Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in...things clad : Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nest* Were, slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She... | |
 | William Scott - 1817 - 416 psl.
...great ! ,• IX. — Evening in Paradise described. Adam, and f Conversation and Evening' Worship. — NOW came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in...livery all things clad. Silence accompanied ; for beast ami hire They to their grassy couch, these to their nest, Were sunk, all but the wakeful nightingale... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 426 psl.
...This only is the witchcraft I have us'd. Section 111. DISCOURSE BETWEEN ADAM AND EVE RETIRING TO REST. Now came still evening on, and Twilight gray Had in...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... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 psl.
...volubil Earth, liy shorter flight to the east, had left him there Arraying with reflected purple and gold liberal air With lavish fragrance ; wliile the promis'd...yet a little embryo, unperceiv'd Within its crimso dungs clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 434 psl.
...— that G OD hew great ! IX. — liventng In paradise described. Mam and Mve's i/:. — MILTON.NOW came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her...things clad. Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird,. * t They to their grassy couch, these to their nest Where sunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 226 psl.
...volubil earth, By shorter flight to the east, had left him there Arraying with reflected purple and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. Now...things clad ; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Wore slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1821 - 752 psl.
...evening, and the retiring of all animals to their repose : Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests,...nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung. When Eve passed the irksome night preceding her fall, she, in a dream, imagines herself thus reproached... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1821 - 366 psl.
...she is then called Hesperus, or the evening star. Do you recollect tho«e beautiful lines of Milton : Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in...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... | |
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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 pleased. Now glowed the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,... 
