 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 534 pages
...could not but reflect upon a beautiful simile in Milton : ' As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick, and sewers, annoy the air, Forth...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... | |
 | 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...the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thiug met conceives delight, I'd* smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, 450 Or dairy', each rural... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 pages
...unknown ; O, grant me honest fame, or grant me none.— * 12. As one, who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth...delight . The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, .' Or dairy, each rural sight, each riiral sound ; If 'chance., with nymph like step, fair virgin pass,... | |
 | Abner Alden - 1814 - 222 pages
...grant me honest fame, or grant me none. t • 4 Pore. 1 II. As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth...villages and farms • . Adjoin'd, from each thing mot conceives, delight. The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural siqht, earh... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 306 pages
...not but reflect upon a beautiful simile in Milton : VoL. V. E As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth...delight : The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound. Those who are conversant in the writings of polite authors,... | |
 | John Milton - 1817 - 214 pages
...Egyptian spouse. Much he the place admir'd, the person more. As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth...conceives delight; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kino, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound ; Jf chance, wilh nymph-like step, fair virgin pass,... | |
 | William Scott - 1817 - 416 pages
...unknown ; O, grant me honest fame, or grant me none. Popl* 12. As one, who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth...Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight; The «mell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound ; If 'chance,... | |
 | 1838 - 884 pages
...man surrounded by the vexations of urban life. Hear Milton-. As onewho long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth...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 - 426 pages
...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 air, Forth...conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass,1 or kine Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound ; If chance with nymph-like step fair... | |
 | 1818 - 444 pages
...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...conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, 1 or kine Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound ; If chance with nymph-like step fair virgin... | |
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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,... 
