 In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.  Select Pieces in Verse and Prose - Page 207by John Bowdler - 1816 - 617 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Education - 1803 - 456 pages
...experience to be wo;i from pleasure itself abroad. In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against...Nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth. I should not therefore be a persuader to youth of studying... | |
 | Henry Kett - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1805 - 340 pages
...in the mines, should not be disregarded. " In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against...nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earths I should not therefore be a persuader to them of studying much... | |
 | Henry Kett - Books and reading - 1805 - 340 pages
...in the mines, should not be disregarded. " In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against...nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth. I should not therefore be a persuader to them of studying much... | |
 | 1811 - 450 pages
...The woods and lawns by living stream at eve. CASTLE OF INDOLENCE. In those vernal seasons of theyear, when the air is soft and pleasant, it were an injury...and partake of her rejoicings with heaven and earth. MILTON'. AT this season when nature begins to throw off the gloomy habiliments of winter, and to array... | |
 | Europe - 1811 - 558 pages
...seasons of the year" (says Milton, in one of the finest sentences of his prose writing) " when the «zr is soft and pleasant^ it were an injury " and sullenness...riches, " and partake of her rejoicings with heaven and earth.'1' — Such is the temper of mind by which, in our early years, those habits which form the... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - Translating and interpreting - 1813 - 466 pages
...following passages, in any translation. ** IN those vernal seasons of the year, " when the air is calm and pleasant, it were " an injury and sullenness against Nature, •** not to go out to see her riches, and par•** take in her rejoicing with heaven and ** earth." MILTON'S Tractate... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1820 - 418 pages
...contribute spontaneously to the formation of taste, all originate in the desire of intellectual 93 gratification, this power, where it is possessed in...which, in our early years, those habits which form the ground work of taste are most likely to be formed ; and such precisely is the temper which, in our... | |
 | Great Britain - 1820 - 606 pages
...those vernal seasons of the yeer, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullennesse against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth. I should not therefore be a persuader to them of studying much... | |
 | English literature - 1837 - 588 pages
...below ; the magnific hills shooting far up above the clouds ! Was not Milton right when he said, " It were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicings with heaven and earth?" Is it not rapture to have burst one's prison-bars — to... | |
 | 1822 - 600 pages
...experience to be won from pleasure itself abroad. In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against...nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth. 1 should not therefore be a persuader to them of studying much... | |
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