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" 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 Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass,... "
A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ... - Page 12
by Samuel Johnson - 1805
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Complete Poems and Major Prose

John Milton - 2003 - 1084 pages
...drama" (sec Much hee the Place admir'd, the Person more. As one who long in populous City pent, 445 Where Houses thick and Sewers annoy the Air, Forth...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, 450...
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The Satanic Epic

Neil Forsyth - 2003 - 398 pages
...an ordinary city-dweller who strolls out into the country one summer's morn and meets a fair virgin: As one who long in populous City pent, Where Houses thick and Sewers annoy the Aire, Forth issuing on a Summers Morn to breathe Among the pleasant Villages and Farmes Adjoyn'd, from...
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Selected Poems

John Gay - 2003 - 100 pages
...Walk into the Fields at the proper Season: even as Maister Milton hath elegantly set forth the same. As one who long in populous City pent, Where Houses thick and Sewers annoy the Aire, Forth issuing on a Summer's Morn to breathe Among the pleasant Villages and Farms Adjoin'd, from...
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The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England

Douglas Trevor - 2004 - 288 pages
...a city into the country identifies some of the features of London that Milton appeared to dislike: 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,...
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Le lierre et la chauve-souris: réveils gothiques : émergence du roman noir ...

Elizabeth Durot-Boucé - 2004 - 292 pages
...ville et campagne, la pollution et la puanteur de l'une à la pureté et aux délices de l'autre : As one who long in populous City pent, Where Houses thick and Sewers annoy the Aire, Forth issuing on a Summers Morn to breathe Among the pleasant Villages and Farmes Adjoynd, from...
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Reading Genesis in the Long Eighteenth Century: From Milton to Mary Shelley

Ana M. Acosta - 2006 - 234 pages
...nothing other than seventeenth-century London: Much hee [Satan] the Place admir'd, the Person [Eve] more. As one who long in populous City pent, Where Houses...Sewers annoy the Air. Forth issuing on a Summer's Morn lo breathe Among the pleasant Villages and Farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight. The...
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Poetry and Ecology in the Age of Milton and Marvell

Diane Kelsey McColley - 2007 - 284 pages
...finds not-yet-fallen Eve among her roses sustaining "Each flower" and is as delighted with the change "As one who long in populous city pent, / Where houses thick, and sewers, annoy the air" (9.445-6). Approaching Paradise, Satan has enjoyed the fragrances borne by pure air that Evelyn says...
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