1837, William Evans Burton (editor), Philadelphia in the Dog Days: An Incoherency, Burton's Gentleman's Magazine and American Monthly Review, Volume 1: July—December, page 131,
The peripatetics issue forth to indulge in the usual vespertine locomotion; and stroll gently down the aristocratic Chesnut and up the sedate and solid-seeming Mulberry, or vice versa.
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Sovereign, majestic peace, joined to the spiritual isolation of the vespertine hour, rose up from those diaphanous, remote distances into the pure sky, where light little clouds, very much like bundles of cotton, scattered sparsely here and there, were tinged with gold.
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'I should be honoured, Ned. Truly honoured. Will you let me go upstairs and change into something a little more vespertine?' He pointed mournfully at his speech day garb.
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Although in the published version of 1815, this sylvan scene of vespertine quietude does not refer to anywhere in particular, the poem was originally written in response to a specific place: on 6 September 1780 Goethe penciled it onto the wooden wall of a hunting hut on a forested hilltop, the Kickelhahn, near Ilmenau.
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