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... Daily readings for a year [ed.] by E. Spooner - Página 294por Elizabeth Spooner - 1880 - 315 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 páginas
...hare us'd.. SECTION III. Discourse between Adam and Eve retiring to rest* Now came still evening.on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things...nightingale. She all. night long her amorous descant sung: Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The... | |
| Richard Hurd - 1811 - 374 páginas
...Milton has given a paraphrase of this passage, but very much below his original, Now came still ev'ning on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompany' d— • . . . ' i . The striking part of Tasso's picture, is, " Night's bringing in Silence... | |
| Richard Hurd - 1811 - 408 páginas
...the English poet not only personixes, but employs in a very becoming office : Now came still ev'ning on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad. Every body will observe a little blemish, in this fine couplet. He should not have used the epithet... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1812 - 378 páginas
...ADAM 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 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,... | |
| 1813 - 778 páginas
...Paradise Ijost, are stamped with Milton's usual sublimity of thought and boldness of expression : ' Beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests . [ingale : • Were slunk; all, but the wakeful NightShe all night long her am'rous descant sung ;... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1813 - 276 páginas
...things elad. Silenee aeeompanied ; for beasl and bird, They to their grassy enueh, these to their nt'sts Were slunk : all but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rons deseant sung : Silenee was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus,... | |
| John Milton - 1813 - 342 páginas
...and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied ; for beast anil bird, 600 They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale... | |
| William Scott - 1814 - 424 páginas
...howgreat! IX.— Ev ening in Paradise described: Adam and Eve'» Cc/n-versation and Evening Wars/lift.— NOW came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad. Siltnce accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nest Were sunk,... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 páginas
...guide the state." WHITFHEAIS. SECTION V. YilSi 00RSE BETWEEM ADA.M AWD EYE, RETIRING TO REST. Wovi- came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her...their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk ; «11 but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her ;:")Yrms descant sung : Silence was pleas'd.... | |
| Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 728 páginas
...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... | |
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