 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
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...THROUGH KENT, WITH MY FRIEND, A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER. " Comes jucundus in via pro vehiculo est" " 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." — Milton. THUS... | |
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