...Deluge floats with silver waves," etc. The author had in his mind Paradise Lost, iv. 604 ff. : — " now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus...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...

...the wakeful nightingale; She all night her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas' d : now glowed the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. MILTON. Heavenly Father, we thank Thee for the quiet of the evening and the silence which steals in...

...chariest maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon. 3319 Shaks.: Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3 Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. The Queen of uight, whose large command Rules all the sea, and half the land, And over moist and crazy...

...following, surely one of the most exquisite descriptive passages in the works of Milton : — .... now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. (PL IV. 604.) Eaphael, in conversation with Adam on what we should now call general physics, informs...

...chariest maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon. 3319 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3 Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. 0320 Milton : Pa,: Lost. Bk. iv. Line 664. The Queen of night, whose large command Rules all the sea,...

...following, surely one of the most exquisite descriptive passages in the works of Milton : — .... now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. (PL IV. 604.) Eaphael, in conversation with Adam on what we should now call general physics, informs...

...solemn stillness interrupted only by the singing of the nightingale: "Silence was pleased, now glowed the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." The fifth book opens with the description of morning in Paradise. Adam and Eve rise from their sleep and...

...descant sung . Silence was pleas'd . Now glowed the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that lead The starry host, rode brightest; till the moon, Rising...peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw . " " Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportional thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by...

...Shakespeare: Hamlet. All was the night's; and in her silent reign No sound the rest of nature did invade. Now glow*d the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. Milton: Paradise Lost. Night, sable goddess, from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches...

...which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world. Milton's familiar lines in "Paradise Lost" are: Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus,...unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silent mantle threw. And again, his words are: A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold And pavement...