...him there Arraying with reflected purple and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. 597 Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in...night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : Now glowed the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode...

...Mam and Eve, retiring to rest. Now came still ev'ning on, and twilight gray Had in her sober liv'ry all things clad. -, Silence accompanied ; for beast...but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rous descant sung : Silence was pleas d. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus,...

...she is then called Hesperus, or the evening star. Do you recollect those beautiful lines of Milton ? Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in...With living sapphires. Hesperus, that led The starry hest, rode brightest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her...

...IX. — Evening in Paradise describzit. Adam and Eve'& Conversation and Evening Worship. — MILTON * NOW came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in...and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nest Were sunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence...

...poets have in all ages made it the theme of their verses ; a few of these we cannot resist giving : -Beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these...night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased. MILTON. And in the violet-embroider'd vale, Where the love-lorn Nightingale Nightly to thee...

...accompanied ; for heast, and hird, They to their gras^ couch, these to their nests, Were slunk; all hut the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous...sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode hrightest; till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unvetl'd her peerless...

...Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on th' eternal Spring. EVENING CONVERSATION BETWEEN ADAM AND EVE. Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in...night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode...

...speaks of it as the " wakeful bird," which is repeated in his description of the approach of evening. " Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to...nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung." 29 " Why sleep'st thou Eve ? now is the pleasant time, The cool, the silent, save where silence yields...

...twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompany'd ; for beast and bird, 600 They to their grassy couch, these to their nests,...sung ; Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament 698 whether] ' whither.' Milton's own ed. 594 volubil'] ' voKibil,' with the second syllable long,...

...— WHITEHEAD. SECTION V. Discourse between Adam and Eve, retiring to reit. NOW came still ev'ning on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all..." £ " They to their grassy couch, these to their i Were sunk ; all but tlie wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rous descant sung ; Silence...