 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 Edinburgh Magazine - Page 5091838Full view - About this book
 | 1821 - 614 pages
...pleasure as they would naturally feel, is very prettily described by the Poet Milton : — " — • One who long in populous city pent, . . • Where...breathe ,. Among the. pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight, ' i The smell of grain, or tedded grass. or kine.... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...Egyptian spouse. Much he the place admir'd, the person more. As one who, long in populous city pent, 445 Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth...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, 450... | |
 | 1821 - 404 pages
...metaphysics and the stir and turmoil of the great world, to the pastoral repose of Thealma, we feel like one, who, long " in populous city pent, where houses thick and sewers annoy the air," inhales again the spirit-stirring breeze of the fields, expatiates amidst smiling plains and embowered... | |
 | 1821 - 408 pages
...metaphysics and the stir and turmoil of the great world, to the pastoral repose of Thealma, we feel like one, who, long " in populous city pent, where houses thick and sewers annoy the air," inhales again the spirit-stirring breeze of the fields, expatiates amidst smiling plains and embowered... | |
 | Thomas Gosden - 1822 - 80 pages
...beholder. It is at this season that we can peculiarly feel the beauty of these charming lines of MILTON — As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses...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,... | |
 | 1822 - 666 pages
...CHARACTER OF A TRUE POET. A> one who long in populous city pent, \\ here houses thick and sewers annov the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe...Adjoined, from each thing met, conceives delight." PAU. LOST. WITH feelings like those above described, we turn from the feverish ucubrations of our modern... | |
 | Thomas R. Joliffe - 1822 - 534 pages
...rather less enchanting ; and I shall probably quit my squalid abode with much the same sensations, As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses...thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a Eammer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives... | |
 | 1822 - 206 pages
...and the poet Cowper a gardener. Riding and walking in the country are most excellent recreations, For one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, . Forth issuing on a summers morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms. MILTON. But they should, if possible,... | |
 | 1822 - 714 pages
...metaphysics, and the stir and turmoil of the great world, to the pastoral repose of Theahna, we feel like one, who long ' in populous city pent, where houses thick and sewers annoy the air,' inhales again the spirit-stirring breeze of the fields, expatiates amidst smiling plains and embowered... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 632 pages
...described or 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...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,... | |
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