| John Milton - 1850 - 594 psl.
...on his western throne attend. Now came still ev'ning on, and" twilight grey Had in her sober liv'ry all things clad ; Silence accompanied : for beast...but the wakeful nightingale : She all night long her am'rous descant sung : Silence was pleased. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus,... | |
| Beautiful garment - 1850 - 164 psl.
...and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were...night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode... | |
| Mrs. Loudon (Jane) - 1850 - 630 psl.
...earth, proud of new clothing, springeth, Sings out her woes ." — SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. -Beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests,...Nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung." MILTON. " And in the violet-embroidered vale. Where the lovelorn Nightingale Nightly to thee her sad... | |
| Bradford Kinney Peirce, Bradford Kinney Pierce - 1850 - 360 psl.
...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...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 Milton, James Prendeville - 1850 - 452 psl.
...original:— Had in her sober ' livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests....the wakeful nightingale ; She, all night long, her amorous1 descant sunfc; Silence was pleas'rt : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus,... | |
| William Russell - 1851 - 392 psl.
...all things clad ; * This mark denotes the ctesural pause. Silence accompanied ; | for beast and bird, They* | to their grassy couch, | these* | to their...night long | her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : | now glowed the firmament With living sapphires ; | Hesperus that led •(•The starry... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1851 - 782 psl.
...Twilight grey, Had in her sober livery all things clad.. Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird Those to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk...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,... | |
| John Milton - 1851 - 554 psl.
...on his western throne attend. Now came still ev'ning on, and twilight grey Had in her sober liv'ry all things clad ; Silence accompanied : for beast...their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk y all but the wakeful nightingale : She all night long her am'rous deseajat sung : Silence was pleased.... | |
| 1851 - 278 psl.
...and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things olad. Silence accompanied : for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests,...the wakeful nightingale : She, all night long, her am'rous descant sung. Silence was pleased. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus,... | |
| John Milton - 1852 - 472 psl.
...voluble 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 Were slunk, all but .the wakeful nightingale; She... | |
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