 | General reader - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1827 - 246 pages
...She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd; now glow'd the firmament With vivid 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 o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. —... | |
 | Bible - 1827 - 294 pages
...wakeful nightingale ; She 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, till the moon, 606 Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 308 pages
...slunk; all but the wakeful mghtingale. She all night long her am'rous descant sung: Silence wL pie Jd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, lillthe moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length; Apparent queen unveil'd her peer ess light, And... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - Authors, English - 1828 - 492 pages
...but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas'd. — Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires, Hesperus...brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light And o'er the dark her silent mantle threw. Milton.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1828 - 252 pages
...~i~ """ '•"'" "c"^ 1 "! itingale . , all night long, her am'rous descant sung. Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament 'With living sapphires :...led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon , llising in clouded majesty , at length, Apparent queen , unveil d her peerless light, And o'er the... | |
 | First steps - Astronomy - 1828 - 456 pages
...Lucifer, or Phosphorus. ELIZABETH. Then it is Venus that Milton speaks of when he mentions Hesperus : " 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 o'er the dark her silver mantle threw."... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - English language - 1829 - 318 pages
...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,...led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Kising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless HgUt, And o'er the dark... | |
 | John Milton - 1829 - 426 pages
...all hut the 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, unvetl'd her peerless... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Astronomy - 1829 - 312 pages
...all but the 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 hest, rode brightest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 512 pages
...what spright Of your /iftr.x you were beheld. That at every motion swelled. Ben J,Tivm. \ lespei us. that led The starry host, rode brightest; till the moon. Rising in cloudy majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled her peerlcst light. In song he never had his peer,... | |
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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... 
