 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1772 - 400 pages
...defcribing the garden of Eden, prefers juftly grandeur before regularity : Flowers worthy of paradife, which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profufe on hill, and dale, and plain;. Both where the morning-fun firftY warmly fmote The open field,... | |
 | English poetry - 1776 - 478 pages
...error under pendent lhades Ran nccUir, vilitinj; each plant, and fed 240 Flow'rs, worthy' of Paradife, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profnfe on hill and dale and plain, Both where the morning fun firft warmly lmote The open field, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779
...error under pendent fhades Ran neftar, vifiting each plant, and fed 1.40 Flow'rs, worthy' of Paradife, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profufe on hill and -dale and plain, Both where the morning fun firft warmly fmote The open field,... | |
 | Shakey Jake - English essays - 1781 - 420 pages
...truth, our great countryman, MILTON. Speaking of the Flowers of . Paradife^ he cglls . them Flowers^ ' which NOT NICE ART In beds and curious Knots., but NATURE BOON Pours forth prof life on hill, and dale^ and plain. PL IV. 245. SOON P. III. SOON after this Jie fubjoins... | |
 | Mr. Marshall (William) - Arboriculture - 1785 - 700 pages
...mazy error under pendent (hades Ran nec~tar, vifiting each plant, and fed Flow'rs worthy of Paradife, which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Pour'd forth proWe on hill and dale and plain, * By the great Lord Chatham, who had a good tafte himfelf in mod«fn... | |
 | Horace Walpole, George Vertue - Gardening - 1786 - 360 pages
...mazy error under pendent fhades Ran ne&ar, vifiting each plant, and fed Flow'rs worthy of Paradife, which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Pour'd forth profufe on hill and dale and plain* Both where the morning fun firft warmly fmote The open field, and... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1788 - 590 pages
...defcribing the garden of Eden, prefers juftly grandeur before regularity : Flowers worthy of paradife, which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Ponr'd walls excluding every external object. At firft view it may puzzle one to account for a tafle... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 272 pages
...error under pendent fhades Ran neftar, vifiting each plant, and fed 240 Flow'rs, worthy' of Paradife, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profufe on hill and dale and plain, Both where the morning fun firft warmly fmote The open field, and... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...equal truth, our great countryman, Milton. Speaking of the tbwträ of Paradile, he calls them flowers, -which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pours forth profufe on bill, and dale, .md plain. PL IV. »45. Soon after this he fubjoins — —... | |
 | John Philips - Cider - 1791 - 210 pages
...nature.} Boon nature is from the following beautiful paflage of Milton. /. Flowers worthy of Paradife, which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but NATURE BOON Pour'd forth profufe on hill, and dale, and plain. PL iv. 241. 442. ' that thtti annually fupplies Their vaults,... | |
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