 As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight — The smell of grain, or tedded grass,...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 5111838Full view - About this book
 | Abner Alden - English language - 1814 - 222 pages
...me live, or die unknown : 0 grant me honest fame, or grant me none. t • 4 Pore. 1 II. As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and...to breathe. Among the pleasant villages and farms • . Adjoin'd, from each thing mot conceives, delight. The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...Unblemish'd let me live, -or die unknown ; O, grant me honest fame, or grant me none.— * 12. As one, who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and...to breathe,. Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight . The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, .'... | |
 | English literature - 1815 - 698 pages
...houses thick, and sewers annoy the sir, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the p.easant villages, and farms Adjoined, from each thing met...kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound: it If If chance, with nymph-like step, fair virgin pass, What pleasing seemed, for her now pleases... | |
 | John Milton - 1815 - 244 pages
...Forth issning on a snmmer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from ench thing met conceives delight; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kinc, 4oti Or daily', ench rnral sight, ench rnral sonnd ; If chancewith ny,,,ph-li';cstep fair virgin... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 306 pages
...for. On this occasion I could not but reflect upon a beautiful simile in Milton : VoL. V. E As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and...morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight : The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or... | |
 | John Milton - 1817 - 214 pages
...Held dalliance with his fair Egyptian spouse. Much he the place admir'd, the person more. As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and...morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kino, Or dairy,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1817 - 416 pages
...Among the pleasant villages and farms "' Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight; The «mell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound ; If 'chance, with nymph like step, fair virgin pas*, 'What pleasing seum'd, for her now pleases more*... | |
 | Classical philology - 1818 - 426 pages
...changed the objects themselves for the better. Milton has a beautiful passage of this kind. " As one who long in populous city pent Where houses thick and...morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass,1 or kine Or... | |
 | Asia - 1818 - 706 pages
...qualities, I answer, what is Cooty but a tatler ? what, the editor of his tale but a tatler ? As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and...morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoiu'd, from each thing met conceive* delight : The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or... | |
 | Classical philology - 1818 - 444 pages
...changed the objects themselves for the better. Milton has a beautiful passage of this kind> " As one who long in populous city pent Where houses thick and sewers annoy the :dr, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from... | |
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