 | William Scott (teacher, Edinburgh.) - 1819 - 360 pages
...Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown ; • . O, grant me honest fame, or grant me none. — Pope. V2. As one, who long in populous city pent^ Where houses...annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breath*", Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The... | |
 | John Milton - 1820 - 305 pages
...Egyptian spouse. Much he 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 Adjoined, from each thins met conceives delight, The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, 450... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 807 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 kine, Or... | |
 | 1821
...pleasure as they would naturally feel, is very prettily described by the Poet Milton : — " — • One who long in populous city pent, . . • Where...breathe ,. Among the. pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight, ' i The smell of grain, or tedded grass. or kine.... | |
 | John Milton - 1821
...Egyptian spouse. Much he 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... | |
 | 1821
...metaphysics and the stir and turmoil of the great world, to the pastoral repose of Thealma, we feel like one, who, long " in populous city pent, where houses thick and sewers annoy the air," inhales again the spirit-stirring breeze of the fields, expatiates amidst smiling plains and embowered... | |
 | 1821
...metaphysics and the stir and turmoil of the great world, to the pastoral repose of Thealma, we feel like one, who, long " in populous city pent, where houses thick and sewers annoy the air," inhales again the spirit-stirring breeze of the fields, expatiates amidst smiling plains and embowered... | |
 | Thomas Gosden - 1822
...beholder. It is at this season that we can peculiarly feel the beauty of these charming lines of MILTON — 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 dairy,... | |
 | Thomas R. Joliffe - 1822
...rather less enchanting ; and I shall probably quit my squalid abode with much the same sensations, As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses...thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a Eammer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives... | |
 | 1822
...and the poet Cowper a gardener. Riding and walking in the country are most excellent recreations, For one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, . Forth issuing on a summers morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms. MILTON. But they should, if possible,... | |
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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,... 
