 | John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins - English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...sands of gold, With mazy error under pendent shades Rao nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flovers, worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill and dale and plain, Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The... | |
 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1836 - 348 pages
...pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed 240 Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not njce Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain, Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The open field, and where... | |
 | 1836 - 784 pages
...equal truth, our great countryman, Milton. Speaking of the flowers of paradise, he calls them flowers, which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Pours forth profuse on bill, and dale, and plain. PL 6. 4. e. 24S. Soon after this passage he subjoins... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837
...pearl and sands of gold, With mazy errour under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise ; which not nice art In...curious knots, but nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain ; Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The open field, and where... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...pearl and sands of gold, With mazy errour under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise ; which not nice art In...curious knots, but nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain ; Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The open field, and where... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 524 pages
...pearl and sands of gold, With mazy errour under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise ; which not nice art In...curious knots, but nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain; Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The open field, and where... | |
 | English periodicals - 1924 - 984 pages
...pottery, but nothing more. So, too, apparently felt Milton when he wrote that the rivers of Eden fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill and dale and plain. _i English taste, at any rate, recoils instinctively... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Downing - Gardens - 1991 - 586 pages
...crisped brooks, — " With mazy error under pendant shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Poufd forth profuse, on hill and dale and plain, Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The... | |
 | Richard Braverman - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 366 pages
...natural design: With mazy error under pendant shades Ran Nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flow'rs worthy of Paradise which not nice Art In Beds and...curious Knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on Hill and Dale and Plain, Both where the morning Sun first warmly smote The open field, and where the... | |
 | Karl Kroeber, Gene W. Ruoff - Poetry - 1993 - 520 pages
...1967), 540. 33. The quotation is from Milton, who describes an ideal world of natural nurture made up of Flowers worthy of Paradise which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill and dale and plain. See Paradise Lost, ed. Alastair Fowler (London, 1971),... | |
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