 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 Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight — The smell of grain, or tedded grass,...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 5111838Full view - About this book
 | Early English newspapers - 1832 - 734 pages
...inanimate ;" a truth which is aptly illustrated by the •well-known simile of Milton : " As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on & summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives... | |
 | 1833 - 796 pages
...and the simplicity of the country. Is it not John Milton who singeth thus : — " As one who lon'af in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers...kine, Or dairy ; each rural sight, each rural sound. If chance, with nymph-like step fair virgin pass, What pleasing seemed, for her, now pleases more ;... | |
 | 1833 - 784 pages
...leaves, and the simplicity of the country. Is it not John Milton who singeth thus : — * As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and...the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each tiling met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy ; each rural... | |
 | Anne Manning - 1833 - 358 pages
...with at least as much energy as the occasion required, repeated the following lines " ' As one who long in populous city pent Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing, on a summer's day; to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight,... | |
 | Anne Manning - 1833 - 250 pages
...energy &a the occasion required, repeated the following lines " ' As one who long in populous cities pent Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing, on a summer's day; to breathe Among the pleasant Tillages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight,... | |
 | 1834 - 766 pages
...sightless Milton. " At one who lonp In popnlons cities pent. Where houses thick and sewers annoy the nlr, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adloined, from each thing metconceivei delight. The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dalry,... | |
 | John Landseer - Painting - 1834 - 534 pages
...experienced when from the studios of Otho Venius and Van Oort, and from the gates of Antwerp,— " Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms, Adjoin'd, from each thing met, conceived delight; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or... | |
 | William Hone - Days - 1835 - 876 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...delight : The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kinr, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound. " ' Those who are conversant in the writings of... | |
 | English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...Held dalliance with his fair Egyptian spouse. Much he the place admired, the person more. As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and...kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound ; If chance with nymph-like step fair virgin pass, What pleasing seemed, for her now pleases more ;... | |
 | John Gay - Poetry - 1979 - 108 pages
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