When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books - Page 85by John Milton - 1826 - 294 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Milton - 1909 - 504 pages
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| Savary (M., Claude Etienne) - Egypt - 1834 - 598 pages
...much taste and judgment has introduced into Eve's rapturous description of external nature : — " Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With...His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower Glistening with dew." many flowers, while every object which presented itself to the eye was clothed... | |
| John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...forget all time; All seasons and their change, all please alike. 64.0 Sweet is the breath of niorn, her rising sweet, With char,m of earliest birds ;...His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, G list"ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft show'rs : and sweet the coming on Cf grateful... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...thus Eve, with perfect beauty' adorn'd: • My Author and Disposer, what thou bidst, 635 Unargu'd, I obey ; so God ordains ; God is thy law, thou mine...spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flow'r, Glist'ring with dew ; fragrant the fertile earth After soft show'rs ; and sweet the coming... | |
| Edward Augustus Kendall - Birds - 1799 - 172 pages
...saved by Egbert ; and they love one another their whole lives long. CHAP. CANARY-BIRD. 139 CHAP. XVII. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With...His orient beams, on herb, tree fruit, and flower Glist'ring with cieiv ; fragrant the fertile earth Afcr soft show'rs; and sweet the coming on Of grateful... | |
| John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...: had recourse to his master, Spencer, the author of that immortal poem called the FAIRY QUEEN ; " Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, " With...His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, " Glist'ring with dew : fragrant the fertile earth " After soft show'rs, and sweet the coming on "... | |
| John Dryden - English prose literature - 1800 - 712 pages
...: had recourse to his master, Spencer, the author of that immortal poem called the FAIRY QUEEN ; " Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, " With...His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, " Glist'ring with dew : fragrant (he fertile earth " After soft show'rs, and sweet the coming on "... | |
| Longinus - Aesthetics - 1800 - 238 pages
...of disorder in the mind. DR. PEARCE. There is a fine Hyperbaton in the vth Book of Paradise Lost : Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With...spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flow'r, Glist'ring with dew : fragrant the fertile earth After soft show'rs : and sweet the coming... | |
| John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...To whom thus Eve with perfect beauty' adorn'd. My Author and Disposer, what thou bidst 635 Unargucd I obey ; so God ordains ; God is thy law, thou mine...His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glist'ring with dew ; fragrant the fertile earth 645 After soft show'rs : and sweet the coming on Of... | |
| Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - English poetry - 1801 - 368 pages
...Oreo. Eve. With thee conversing, I forget all time, All seasons, and their change ; all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With...flower, Glistering with dew : fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night, With this... | |
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