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 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...king Held dalliance with his fair Egyptian spouse. Much he the place admir'd, the person more. 445 As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to hreathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 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... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1866 - 662 pages
...occasional rural excursions. As much as this he hints at in the following beautiful passage : " 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... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...dalliance with his fair Egyptian spouse. BOOK IX. MILTON. Much he the place admir'd, the person more. An d down he sinks Beneath the shelter of the shapeless drift, Thinking o'er all th — Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...king Held dalliance with his fair Egyptian spouse. Much he the place admired, 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 tin' pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from... | |
 | Seasons - 1844 - 276 pages
...It is at this season that we can peculiarly feel the beauty of the charming lines of 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 Adjoin'd, from... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 92 pages
...sapient king Held dalliance with his fair Egyptian spouse. Much he the place admired, 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 Adjoined, from each... | |
 | James Waddel Alexander - Labor - 1847 - 300 pages
...im • provement, no delightful evening•s ft hom'i. XXXVIII. THE WORKING-MAN IN THE COTTNTRT. " 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... | |
 | English literature - 1847 - 584 pages
...in the wilderness — when in glorious autumn we found ourselves with all our friends elsewhere, " in populous city pent, where houses thick and sewers annoy the air," bringing by contrast into our minds the breath of pleasant villages and farms, the airs of the uplands... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 pages
...sapient king Held dalliance with his fair Egyptian spouse. Much he the place admired, the person more. As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, 445 Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breaths Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin 'd, from... | |
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