 | Olinthus Gregory - Authors, English - 1828 - 492 pages
...her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas'd. — Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires, Hesperus that led The starry host, rode brightest,...unveil'd her peerless light And o'er the dark her silent mantle threw. Milton. Par. Lost. Book IV. v. 605. Night is fair virtue's immemorial friend :... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1828 - 262 pages
..., her am'rous descant sung . Silence was pleas'd . Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host , rode brightest...Rising in clouded majesty , at length , Apparent queen , unveil d her peerless light , And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw . 3. When Adam thus to Eve... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...long her amorous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest...mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair consort th? hous Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind us of like repose; since God hath set Labour... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Astronomy - 1829 - 312 pages
...Silence was pleas'd ; now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that led The starry hest, rode brightest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. so that water there would be carried off in the shape of steam, for by experiments with the thermometer,... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - English language - 1829 - 318 pages
...brightest, till the moon, Kising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless HgUt, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. £. When...Adam thus to Eve : " fair consort, th' hour Of night, ami all things now retir'd to rest, Mind us of Hke repose ; since God hath set Labour and rest, :is... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - Science - 1829 - 278 pages
...: after conjunction they are turned to the west. How beautifully is the moon described by Milton : -till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length,...Apparent Queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er^ the night her silver mantle threw. Book ir. line 606. - Charles. I see the figure is intended to show that... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...night long her amorous descant sung: Silence was pleased. Now glowed the firmament With living Saphirs; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw; When Adam thus to Eve : —... | |
 | Heinrich Mutschmann - 1924 - 80 pages
...apart from the sense. 598 came (No 40). 604 . . . Now glowed the firmament 605 With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw . . . Living sapphires for growing... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1977 - 308 pages
...particular moment in Paradise Lost: Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the Firmament With living Sapphires: Hesperus that led The starry Host, rode brightest,...light, And o'er the dark her Silver Mantle threw. [IV: 604-609] This was a favorite passage of Wordsworth's. The Guide to the Lakes recalls that Milton... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...has explained to Eve the importance of their labor in book 4, as they retire to their blissful bower: When Adam thus to Eve: Fair Consort, th' hour Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest Mind us of like repose, since God hath set Labour and rest, as day and night to men... | |
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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 descant sung; Silence was pleased: now... 
