 | John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...the wakeful nightingale; She all night long heram'rous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd ; now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led . The starry host, rode hrightest, till the moon Rising in elouded majesty, ai lengths Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless... | |
 | Anna Seward - Physicians - 1804 - 352 pages
...moon-light scenery in Milton. It is never more. charming than in the following instance : Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, o'er all Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...wakeful 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 starry host, rode hrightest, till the moon. Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd : now glbw'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouHed majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And... | |
 | John Parkhurst - Greek language - 1809 - 890 pages
...the starry train emblaze the sphere. POPE. So Milton, in his description of the evening. -Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest. Par. Lost, b. iv. lin. 604—6. 'Efijxcu, either from sYr/xa perf. of I'rij^i to . stand, or from Heb.... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...wakeful 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 starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...wakeful 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 starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon, Rising in clouded- majesty,. at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1812 - 378 pages
...wakeful nightingale. She all night long 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, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd ht-r peerless light,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sungf : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest ; till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light,... | |
 | England - 1840 - 876 pages
...skies," who acknowledge her precedence, and give place to her glory as she moves among them. " Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And... | |
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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. 
