...Whilst we show reverence to yond peeping moon. g. THOMAS MIDDLETON — The Witch. ActV. Sc. 2. * * * , h. MILTON— Paradise Lost. Bk. IV. L. 601. The moon looks On many brooks, The brook can see no moon...

...the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased : now gloVd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. EVE'S CONJUGAL LOVE. MY author and disposer, what thou bid'st, Unargued I obey : so God ordains ; God...

...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...peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.2 In Eve's speech to Adam we have a beautiful description of peaceful nature, and a suggestion...

...firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moo«, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Line 698. The timely dew of sleep. Line 614. With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons, and...

...firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moou, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Line S9S. The timely dew of sleep. Line eu With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons, and...

...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...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. /,,-„« 698. The timely dew of sleep. ijne 614. With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons,...

...description in Milton, — ' Till the moon Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.' The stars also are represented twinkling in the blue abyss, by intervals of sweet sounds just audible....

...peaceful night: "Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things ckd ; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their...way, ChurchAnd leaves the world to darkness and to me." Thorn Gray. Or this of the seashore and hamlet where Enoch Arden lived: "Long lines of cliff,...

...description in Milton : — "Till the moon Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." ' The stars also are represented twinkling in the blue abyss, by intervals of sweet sounds just audible....

...With living sapphires ; Hesperus that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon, 1 iii. 432. Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen...peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw " ; and with this also II Penseroso, 71 f. : — " And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping through...