 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
 | William Hone - 1830 - 878 pages
...accounted for. On this occasion, I could not but reflect upon a beautiful simile in Milton :— As one who long in populous city pent. Where houses thick and...delight : The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kinc, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound. " ' Those who are conversant in the writings of... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 306 pages
...Held dalliance with his fair Egyptian spouse. Much he the place admired, ffie person more. As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, 445 Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1831 - 372 pages
...unhappy event could have been even coatemplatcd. DE VERB. INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. THE TOUR OF BEAUCLERK. Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms.—MILTO.V. Let the issue show itself.—SHAKSPKARB WHY, in my old age, I have proposed to myself... | |
 | 1831 - 704 pages
...one who lone in p-pulons city prnt, VVtv're hou.-*-s thick and sewer* annoy the air, Forth ¡aeuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Arijoin'd, from «ach thinp met conceives delight: The smell of grain, or leaded сгавд, or kinp»... | |
 | 1832 - 438 pages
...dalliance with his fair Egyptian spouse. Much he the place admir'd, the person more. * Horne. 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... | |
 | 1832 - 618 pages
...anything inanimate ;" a truth which is aptly illustrated by the well-known simile of Milton : " Ai 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 dairy,... | |
 | 1832 - 406 pages
...towns may feel in an occasional excursion into the country : — " — One who long in populous cities pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air,...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 dairy,... | |
 | 1832 - 734 pages
...inanimate ;" a truth which is aptly illustrated by the •well-known simile of Milton : " As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on & summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives... | |
 | 1833 - 796 pages
...and the simplicity of the country. Is it not John Milton who singeth thus : — " As one who lon'af in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers...kine, Or dairy ; each rural sight, each rural sound. If chance, with nymph-like step fair virgin pass, What pleasing seemed, for her, now pleases more ;... | |
 | 1833 - 784 pages
...leaves, and the simplicity of the country. Is it not John Milton who singeth thus : — * As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and...the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each tiling met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy ; each rural... | |
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