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 Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass,... The Retrospective Review.. - Page 249edited by - 1821Full view - About this book
| 1776 - 478 pages
...sapient ling 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 thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each... | |
| John Milton - 1795 - 282 pages
...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 thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among thepleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 954 pages
...long enjoy ; Ne wicked envy, nor vile jealousy, His dear delights were able to anny. Fairy (¿uan. 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 Adjoin d, from each... | |
| 1817 - 628 pages
...long confined him to 'the metropolis ; and one is led almost to envy the new and vivid sensations of 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 Adjoin'd, from... | |
| 1822 - 634 pages
...into the finest spontaneous jubilation you can imagine. It really did one's heart good, to see those " —Who long in populous city pent, "" " Where houses thick and sewers annoy the «ir, " Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe," so delighted ; besides, their carolling led to... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...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 thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoiu'd, from each... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 446 pages
...for. On this occasion I could not but reflect upon a beantiful simile in Milton: VOl. V. - • .18 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 Adjoin'd, from each... | |
| William Hayley - 1810 - 484 pages
...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 thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each... | |
| 1810 - 482 pages
...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 thick and sewers auilny the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and faj-ras... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1811 - 530 pages
...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 thick, and sewers, annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages, and farms Adjoined, from... | |
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