 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: now glowed the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus that led The starry host rode brightest,...  Noctes Ambrosianæ - Página 300por John Wilson, James Hogg, John Gibson Lockhart - 1866Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 páginas
...living sap'phires : He'sperus (that le'd The starry hos'ti rode brightest ; till the mo"on, (Rising in clouded majesty,) at len'gth, Apparent que'en,...lig'ht, And o'er the dar'k/ her silver mantle thre'w ; When Ad'am/ th'us to Ev'e : " Fair con'sort, the hour Of ni'ght, and all things now retired to re'st,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 páginas
...With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest ; till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled...peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw : When Adam thus to Eve : " Fair consort ! the hour Of night, and all things now retired to rest Mind... | |
 | William Russell - 1845 - 410 páginas
...living sapphires ; | Hesperus that led |The starry host, | rode brightest, | till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, | at length Apparent queen | unveiled...light, And o'er the dark | her silver mantle threw." The caesural pause in anapeeslic verse, falls appropriately near the middle of the line. But harmony... | |
 | William Russell - 1846 - 420 páginas
...firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus that led The starry host, rode brightest till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveiled...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.' Solemnity, Sublimity, and Pathos. The Treasures of the Deep. — Mrs. Hemans. ' What hid'st thou in... | |
 | William Russell - 1846 - 394 páginas
...starry host, | rode brightest, | till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, | at length Apparent queen I unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark | her silver mantle threw." The caesural pause in anapaestic verse, falls appropriately near the middle of the line. But harmony... | |
 | George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - 1847 - 374 páginas
...And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage. MILTON. ' n Pens.' till the moon Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled...peerless light And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. PL, iv. 607.] Exercise. , By means of working day and night for many weeks, the task was • completed,... | |
 | Henry Howard, Frank Howard - 1848 - 398 páginas
...firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." Paradise Lost. which was purchased by Jesse "Watts Russell, Esq. In 1830 he painted a picture of "... | |
 | John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - 1848 - 56 páginas
...firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest ; till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Milton. xin. SATAN'S OVERTHROW. Nine times the space that measures day and night To mortal men, he... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1871 - 598 páginas
...a pony instead, and you can ride with me." imljj fjji BY THE EEV. H. OLLEBENSHAW. " The moon Riding in clouded majesty,— at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantlo threw." — MILTON. NO. V. — THE MOON. ' HE moon is our nearest neighbour, and with the beauty... | |
 | E. A. ANSLEY - 1849 - 288 páginas
...firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." — Milton. "L'Arare mugissant sous un pont que 1'outrage." — Racine. "0 earth ! behold I kneel upon... | |
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