| Chris Fitter - 1995 - 358 pages
...almost inevitable Milton's comparison of Satan's escape from hell into Eden with a Londoner's excursion: As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses...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 dairy,... | |
| Lawrence Manley - 1995 - 638 pages
...The smoaky glory of the Towne, " and even Milton's Satan approached the salubrious Eden "As one... long in populous City pent, / Where Houses thick and Sewers annoy the Air" (Paradise Lost, 9.445-446). Jonson's Epiccene (1609), which, untypically of the heteroglot plays of... | |
| Nicholas Roe - 1998 - 344 pages
...reflected traditional wisdom," on which Milton had drawn for the pastoral simile in Paradise Lost Book IX: As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses...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 dairy,... | |
| Automobile Association (Great Britain) - 1996 - 268 pages
...back to the start of the walk. CENTRAL ENGLAND AND EAST ANGLIA APPLEBY MAGNA, LEICESTERSHIRE A, LS one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick...morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight. MILTON - PARADISE LOST VILLAGE WALKS IN BRITAIN CENTRAL... | |
| Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...For solitude sometimes is best society, And short retirement urges sweet return. 7622 Paradise Lost t Religlon. 2086 Critical and Miscellaneous Essays...without love were a physical and metaphysical impossi mom to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight.... | |
| Patrick Abercrombie - 2004 - 266 pages
...expression from the poets and is summed up by Milton in the famous simile, with its opening antithesis : As one who long in populous city pent Where houses thick and sewers l annoy the air Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd,... | |
| John Pitcher - 1999 - 412 pages
...experience of a city dweller who has escaped from the crowding, smells, and other annoyances of urban life: As one who long in populous city pent. Where houses...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 dairy,... | |
| Michael C. Schoenfeldt - 1999 - 224 pages
...phenomenon of waste disposal in order to negate its appropriateness to Paradise when he compares Satan to "one who long in populous City pent, / Where Houses thick and Sewers annoy the Aire," and who escapes to the country where he "from each thing met conceives delight" (9.445-48).... | |
| Paul Hammond - 2002 - 484 pages
...sapient king Held dalliance with his fair Egyptian spouse.* Much he the place admired, the person more. As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses...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, 450... | |
| John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pages
...sapient king0 Held dalliance with his fair Egyptian spouse.0 Much he the place admired, the person more. As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses...morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight, The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or tine, 450... | |
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