| William Scott - 1814 - 424 Seiten
...praije. Unblemish'd let me live, -or die unknown ; O, grant me honest fame, or grant me none.— * 12. As one, who long in populous city pent, Where houses...grass, or kine, .' Or dairy, each rural sight, each riiral sound ; If 'chance., with nymph like step, fair virgin pass, Wkat pleasing seem'd, for her now... | |
| Abner Alden - 1814 - 222 Seiten
...pnblemish'd let me live, or die unknown : 0 grant me honest fame, or grant me none. t • 4 Pore. 1 II. As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses...villages and farms • . Adjoin'd, from each thing mot conceives, delight. The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural siqht, earh... | |
| 1815 - 698 Seiten
...sir, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the p.easant villages, and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight, The smell of...kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound: it If If chance, with nymph-like step, fair virgin pass, What pleasing seemed, for her now pleases... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 306 Seiten
...accounted for. On this occasion I could not but reflect upon a beautiful simile in Milton : VoL. V. E As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses...kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound. Those who are conversant in the writings of polite authors, receive an additional entertainment from... | |
| John Milton - 1817 - 214 Seiten
...sapient king 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...conceives delight; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kino, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound ; Jf chance, wilh nymph-like step, fair virgin pass,... | |
| William Scott - 1817 - 416 Seiten
...praise. Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown ; O, grant me honest fame, or grant me none. Popl* 12. As one, who long in populous city pent, Where houses...Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight; The «mell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound ; If 'chance,... | |
| 1838 - 884 Seiten
...Such is the aspiration of the man surrounded by the vexations of urban life. Hear Milton-. As onewho long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and...morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or... | |
| 1818 - 426 Seiten
...absolutely changed the objects themselves for the better. Milton has a beautiful passage of this kind. " As one who long in populous city pent Where houses...conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass,1 or kine Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound ; If chance with nymph-like step fair... | |
| 1818 - 706 Seiten
...those qualities, I answer, what is Cooty but a tatler ? what, the editor of his tale but a tatler ? As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses...morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoiu'd, from each thing met conceive* delight : The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or... | |
| 1818 - 708 Seiten
...in populous city pent, Where homes thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's mom, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight : The - im'll of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy ; each rural right, each rural sound. " I was... | |
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