 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 2491821Full view - About this book
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...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 thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe,. Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from... | |
 | Abner Alden - English language - 1814 - 222 pages
...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 thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe. Among the pleasant villages and farms • . Adjoin'd,... | |
 | John Milton - 1817 - 214 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 306 pages
...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 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... | |
 | England - 1838 - 884 pages
...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 sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each... | |
 | Classical philology - 1818 - 426 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Asia - 1818 - 706 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Classical philology - 1818 - 444 pages
...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 thick and sewers annoy the :dr, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from... | |
 | John Moore - 1820 - 476 pages
...permit him to enjoy the exhilarating view of green fields, and to breath the free air of the country, 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 Moore, Robert Anderson - English literature - 1820 - 470 pages
...permit him to enjoy the exhilarating view of green fields, and to breath the free air of the country, 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... | |
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