| 1816 - 660 pages
...labo" rious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so " full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that " the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.' ' In this and other passages that might be cited from the prose of Milton, we perceive that we are... | |
| 1816 - 654 pages
...labo" rious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so " full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that " the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.1 ' In this and other passages that might be cited from the prose of Milton, we perceive that... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1816 - 292 pages
...laborious indeed, at the first ascent ; but else so smooth, so green, so full of ;;or>dly prospec's, ard melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more chaiming." Every thing in this sentence conspires to promote the harmony. The words are well chosen... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1817 - 356 pages
...a hill-side^ laboriousindeed, at the first ascent ; but else so smooth, so green, so full of gnodly prospects, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming." Every thing in this sentence conspires to promote the harmony. The words are well chosen; full of liquids,... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1817 - 516 pages
...the first ascent ; but else, so «meoth, so green, so full of goodly prospects, and melodious souneb on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.' Every thing in this sentence conspires to promote the harmony. The words are happily chosen ; full... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1818 - 300 pages
...from Milton ; " We shall conduct you to a hill side, laborious indeed at the first ascent ; but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospects and...melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus waa not more charming." Every thing in this sentence conspires to render it harmonious. The words are... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1818 - 320 pages
...Education : " We shall conduct you to a hill-side, laborious indeed, at the first ascent ; but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospects, and melodious sounds on everyside, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming." Every thing in this sentence conspires... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1818 - 266 pages
...at the first ascent; but else, so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospects and melodious seunds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming." Every thing in this sentence conspires to render it harmonious. The words are well chosen ; laborious,... | |
| 1829 - 632 pages
...which he says, " We shall conduct you to a hill side, laborious indeed at the first ascent ; but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospects,...that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming." The mind first with feeble essays makes a little progress, urging on through fatigues and obstructions... | |
| Alexander Jamieson - 1820 - 388 pages
...melody's suffering. For, let us ohserve, how finely the memhers of the period swell one ahove another. '; So smooth, so green," ^ — "so full of goodly prospects, and melodious sounds on every side;" — lill the ear, prepared hy this gradual rise, is conducted to t:iat full close on which it rests... | |
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