 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
 | 1829 - 494 páginas
...poets have in all ages made it the theme of their verses ; a few of these we cannot resist giving : -Beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these...Nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased. MILTON. And in the violet-embroider'd vale, Where the love-lorn Nightingale... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 páginas
...Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on th' eternal Spring. EVENING CONVERSATION BETWEEN ADAM AND EVE. Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in...nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led The... | |
 | James Bolton - 1830 - 382 páginas
...speaks of it as the " wakeful bird," which is repeated in his description of the approach of evening. " Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to...nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung." 29 " Why sleep'st thou Eve ? now is the pleasant time, The cool, the silent, save where silence... | |
 | Stuart Feder - 1992 - 444 páginas
...Milton's Paradise Lost, contrasts curiously with the homespun sentimentality of the boy Charlie Ivés: Now came still evening on, and Twilight gray Had in...sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for the beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests were slunk. (Evening)12 One evening... | |
 | Oscar George Sonneck - 1924 - 734 páginas
...were he on a desert island, far from concert-halls and opera-houses. You remember Milton's lines : All but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased. You remember, too, Tennyson's: I do but sing because I must, And pipe but... | |
 | Edward Kimber - 1998 - 146 páginas
...surprize a Stranger much. (Kimber's note) 35. Paradise Lost, book 4, lines 598-609: Now came still Ev'ning on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober Livery all...clad; Silence accompanied, for Beast and Bird, They to thir grassy Couch, these to thir Nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful Nightingale; She all night long... | |
 | Philip Lambert - 1997 - 332 páginas
...pleasing Silence? Figure 3.3 Text comparison for "Evening" Milton: [Ivés: Now came still Eveningon, and Twilight gray had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for the beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests were slunk, all but the wakeful... | |
 | Judith A. Stein - 1999 - 180 páginas
...all things clad; Silence accompanied, for Beast and Bird, They to thir grassie Couch, these to thir Nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful Nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; With living Saphirs: Hesperus that led Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the Firmament The starrie... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 2003 - 388 páginas
...with reflected Purple and Gold The Clouds that on his Western Throne attend: Now came still Ev'ning on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober Livery all...things clad; Silence accompanied, for Beast and Bird, BOH They to thir grassy Couch, these to thir Nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful Nightingale; She... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 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 and bird,0 600 They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale;... | |
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