 Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.  The heirs of Villeroy - Page 155by Henrietta Rouvière Mosse - 1806Full view - About this book
 | John Lauris Blake - 1825 - 404 lehte
...firmament With living sapphires — Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest ; till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. THE DELUGE. 1. THE wickedness of mankind had rapidly increased with the increasing population, andXthe... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 lehte
...firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen,...light ; And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.— —MILTON Night, sable power ! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 lehte
...living sapphires ; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon Rising in elouded When Adam thus to Eve. Fair eonsort, the hour Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind us... | |
 | Thomas Crofton Croker - 1825 - 386 lehte
...the night ; so he sat down under the moat to rest himself, and began looking mournfully enough upon the moon, which " Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent Queen, unveil'd her peerless light, O'er the dark heaven her silver mantle threw, And in her pale dominion check'd the night." Presently... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1825 - 310 lehte
...conjunction they are turned to the .west. How beautifully is the moon described by Milton*: -till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent Queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the night her silver mantle threw. Book iv. line 606. Charles. J^ see the figure is intended to show that... | |
 | Thomas Crofton Croker - 1825 - 396 lehte
...and that he should be walking all the night ; so he sat down under the moat to rest himself, and " Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent Queen, unveil'd her peerless light, O'er the dark heaven her silver mantle threw, And in her pale dominion check'd the night." Presently... | |
 | Augustus Toplady - 1825 - 484 lehte
...firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest : 'till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, v And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw *." Again : " The sun was sunk ; and, after him, the star... | |
 | Thomas Crofton Croker - 1826 - 366 lehte
...the night ; so he sat down under the moat to rest himself, and began looking mournfully enough upon the moon, which " Rising in clouded majesty, at length,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." Presently there rose a wild strain of unearthly melody upon the ear of little Lusmore ; he listened,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 286 lehte
...firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. 2 When Adam thus to Eve : " Fair consort, th' hour Of night, and all things now relir'd to rest, Mind... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), Thomas P. Jones - 1826 - 286 lehte
...the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. The planet next to Venus is the Earth, of which we shall soon speak at full length. At present I shall... | |
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