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 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 314 pages
...could not but reflect upon a beautiful simile in Milton : VOL. V. E As one who long in populous citj pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air,...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... | |
 | John Gay, Thomas Park - 1808 - 322 pages
...Maister Milton Sath elegantly set forth the same. As «ne who long in populous city pent, Where bouses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a...morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd. from each thing met conceives delight; The smell ef gnin, or tedded grass »r kine, Or dim... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 308 pages
...the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight : The smell of ^rain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound. Those who are conversant in the writings of polite authors, receive an additional entertainment from... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 490 pages
...hath elegantly set forth the same. , As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick ana sewers annoy the air Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoiu'd, from each thing met conceives delig The smell of grain, or tedded grass or kine, Or dairy,... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...elegantly set forth the same. As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick ana •ewers 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 or kine, Or dairy,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 582 pages
...fields at the proper season : even as maister Milton bath elegantly set forth the same : As one who long in populous city pent. Where houses thick and...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,... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...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 thick and...morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight j The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight; Die smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound ; If chance, with nymph-like step, fair virgin pass, What pleasing seem'd, for her now pleases more... | |
 | 1810 - 482 pages
...admir'd, the person more. As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers auilny the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and faj-ras Adjoiu'd, from each thing met conceives delight, The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 530 pages
...accounted for. On this occasion, I could not but reflect upon a beautiful simile in Milton : ' As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick, and...kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, -each rural sound. Those who are conversant in the writings of polite authors, receive an additional entertainment from... | |
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