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" Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world... "
The Edinburgh magazine, and literary miscellany, a new series of The Scots ... - Page 311
1818
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. Printed from ...

John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...leaves, while universal Pan Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance Led on th' eternal spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers Herself a fairer flow'r by gloomy Dis 170 Was gather'd, which cost Ceres all that pain To icelt her through the world;...
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Paradise lost, a poem. Pr. from the text of Tonson's correct ed. of 1711

John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...leaves, while universal Pan Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance Led on th' eternal spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers Herself a fairer flow'r by gloomy Uis 270 Was gather'd, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 20

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 798 pages
...away Proserpine from the fields of Enna in Sicily. Thus Milton, Paradise Lcut, book 4 Ter. 2d9. not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gatlier'd, which cost Ceres all tLatpan To seek her through the world &e also Ovid's Metamorphoses,...
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Paradise Lost, and the Fragment of a Commentary upon it by William Cowper

William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gather'd, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek Tier through the world; nor that sweet grove,...
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Life of Torquato Tasso: With an Historical and Critical Account of ..., Volume 2

John Black - 1810 - 528 pages
...number of beautifully sounding names of places, winds, &c. as in the following example : . ——Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy t)is Was gather'd, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world ; nor that sweet grove...
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Cowley, Denham, Milton

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal Spring. Not that feir field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Wai gather'd, which cost Ceres all that paiu Ta Ģeak I.IT through tie wotld ; nor that t wĢet...
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Plutarch's Lives: Translated from the Original Greek, Volume 3

Plutarch - Greece - 1811 - 352 pages
...i 19, 21.)* 57 For the beavity of this Sicilian city, and the fertility of the Surrounding country, That fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gnther'd '" '(Milt. PL iv. 267.) See Cie. adv. Verr. de Signis,- for its treachery to the Romans,...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Life of the Author, Volume 1

John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours, hi dance Led on tlT eternal spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flowY, by gloomy Dis 270 Was gnther'd, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek hc-r throngh the world...
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Plutarch's Lives, Volume 3

Plutarch - Greece - 1816 - 314 pages
...19, 21.) • on e For the beauty of this Sicilian city, and the fertility of the surrounding country, That fair field . :> .Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Wasgather'd ' Milt. PL iv. 26?. See Cic. adv. Verr. de Signit : for its treachery to the Romans,...
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A Tour Through Sicily and Malta: In a Series of Letters to William Beckford ...

Patrick Brydone - Malta - 1817 - 552 pages
...these authorities, if you please you may add that of Milton, who compares it to paradise itself: Nor that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gathered If you want to have a fuller account of this place, you will find it in Cicero's pleadings...
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