| Joseph Addison - 1811 - 628 pages
...described or 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...annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to hreathe Among the pleasant villages, and farms Adjoiu'd, from each thing met conceives delight : The... | |
| John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...adnm-'d, the person more. As one who, long in- populous city pent, <45 Where houses thick and sowers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thiug met conceives delight, I'd* smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, 450... | |
| William Scott - 1814 - 424 pages
...praije. 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...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, .'... | |
| Abner Alden - 1814 - 222 pages
...pnblemish'd let 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...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,... | |
| John Milton - 1817 - 214 pages
...sapient king 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...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,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 306 pages
...accounted 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...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... | |
| 1838 - 884 pages
...Such is the aspiration of the man surrounded by the vexations of urban life. Hear Milton-. As onewho long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and...morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or... | |
| 1818 - 706 pages
...those 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...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... | |
| 1818 - 426 pages
...absolutely 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...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... | |
| 1818 - 444 pages
...absolutely 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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