| 1835 - 430 pages
...gardening in the times when he lived, in those well-known verses.— "Flower» worthy of Paradise, which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Poured out profuse on hill and dale and plain, Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The open... | |
| Richard Bentley - Classical poetry - 1838 - 578 pages
...ibid. [754. — D.] Et tumulum capit. [f these ; Itl ed. " those."— D.] k Flowers worthy of paradise, which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain. Paradise Lost, lib. iv. [241.— D.] 1 For earth hath this variety... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...mazy errour under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise ; which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain ; Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The open field,... | |
| Walter Scott - France - 1836 - 424 pages
...gardening, in the times when he lived, in those well-known verses : — " Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots- but Nature boon Poured out profuse on hill, and dale, and plain, Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The... | |
| Walter Scott - 1836 - 420 pages
...gardening, in the times when he lived, in those well-known verses : — " Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Poured out profuse on hill, and dale, and plain, Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The... | |
| C. S. Lewis - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1990 - 356 pages
...is being said, allusions to Great Mother Nature; as in Milton's description of the paradisal flowers which not nice Art In Beds and curious knots, but nature boon Pourd forth profuse2 Sometimes it is difficult to say whether Great Mother Nature, even rhetorically, is intended... | |
| Cecil Victor Deane - History - 1967 - 166 pages
...to the lines in which Milton appears to disparage the formal garden, viz.: Flours worthy of Paradise which not nice Art In Beds and curious Knots, but Nature boon Powrd forth profuse on Hill and Dale and Plaine. their landscape suggestions more from him than from... | |
| English periodicals - 1924 - 970 pages
...So, too, apparently felt Milton when he wrote that the rivers of Eden fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill and dale and plain. _i English taste, at any rate, recoils instinctively... | |
| Andrew Jackson Downing - Gardens - 1991 - 586 pages
...mazy error under pendant shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Poufd forth profuse, on hill and dale and plain, Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The... | |
| Richard Braverman - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 366 pages
...mazy error under pendant shades Ran Nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flow'rs worthy of Paradise which not nice Art In Beds and curious Knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on Hill and Dale and Plain, Both where the morning Sun first warmly smote The open field, and... | |
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