 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
 | William Chambers - 1859 - 600 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.' It cannot be seriously denied that imagination is displayed in both these extracts : the difference... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1859 - 636 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.' It cannot be seriously denied that imagination is displayed in both these extracts : the difference... | |
 | John Milton, Thomas Keightley - 1859 - 492 páginas
...in Night's blaek livery." The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in elouded majestv, at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw ; When Adam thus to Eve : — " Fair Consort, the hour 010 Of night, and all things now retired to... | |
 | William Evans Burton - 1859 - 690 páginas
...afterwards arose, though "in clouded majesty ; " but before we had left the forest half a mile astern, she Unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. A TRUE STORY. Ox the plain of New Jersey, one hot summer's day, Two Englishmen, snug in a stage-coach,... | |
 | Emma Willard - 1860 - 316 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." 3. By Hesperus is meant the planet Venus, the brightest star of the Heavens. This planet, nearer the... | |
 | Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 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...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 Caldwell Roscoe - 1860 - 576 páginas
...the assumed, and mingling the shades of metaphor and description. So Milton tells us that the moon, " Apparent Queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." Gray would have said she unveiled her peerless face, and clothed the form of Darkness in her silver... | |
 | William Caldwell Roscoe - 1860 - 546 páginas
...the assumed, and mingling the shades of metaphor and description. So Milton tells us that the moon, " Apparent Queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." Gray would have said she unveiled her peerless face, and clothed the form of Darkness in her silver... | |
 | James H. Knox - 1860 - 346 páginas
..." little lambs" were safe in bed. That night the moon rose clear and unclouded, Apparent queen, she unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. It was such a night as that on which Norman had first left Thornton ; and now, within the space of... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 424 páginas
...was pleased: now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Kising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve: Fair... | |
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