...and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and hird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests,...night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode...

...still evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied; nor glimpse divine! When Adam thus to Eve. Fair consort, the hour Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind us...

...is a circumstance which adds great beauty to his description. I have often thought that the weakness They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were...firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led 605 The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen...

...evening, iv. 508. nothing can be more charming than what is said of the nightingale. Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these...her amorous descant sung; • Silence was pleas'd. In that tender speech of Eve's to Adam, iv. 639. With thee converging I forget all time, &c. Amongst...

...evening, iv. 598. nothing can be more charming than what is said of the nightingale. Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these...long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd. In that tender speech of Eve's to Ail ui ii, iv. 639. With thee conversing I forget all time, &c. Amongst...

...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...all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased; now glowed the firmament With living saphirs; Hesperus that led The starry host, rode brightest,...

...description. 1 have often thought that the weakne** They to their grassy couch, these to their uests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She...firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led 605 The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen...

...all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires —...Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveilM her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. j' THE DELUGE. I.(THE wickedness...

...these to their nesta Were slunk ; all but the wakeful nightingale : She all night long her plaintive descant sung. Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the...light ; And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.— —MILTON Night, sable power ! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden...

...Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nest Were sunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long...Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveii'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair...