 Adam, well may we labour still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower, Our pleasant task enjoin'd ; but, till more hands Aid us, the work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint ; what we by day Lop overgrown, or prune, or...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Rambler - Page 111by Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787Full view - About this book
 | Rebecca W. Bushnell - Gardening - 2003 - 220 pages
...task enjoined, but till more hands Aid us, the work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint; what we by day Lop overgrown, or prune, or prop, or...or two with wanton growth derides Tending to wild. (book 9,11. 205-12) Adam and Eve's mutual sexual pleasure, which interrupts their work, is shadowed... | |
 | Susannah B. Mintz - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 276 pages
...seems more typical of him than her: 1 "' . . . the work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint; what we by day Lop overgrown, or prune, or prop, or...or two with wanton growth derides Tending to wild. (9.208-12) So "Adamic" is the tone here—she even speaks of "unearned" suppers (225), a formulation... | |
 | Ken Hiltner - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 182 pages
...task enjoyn'd, but till more hands Aid us, the work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint; what we by day Lop overgrown, or prune, or prop, or...night or two with wanton growth derides Tending to wilde. Thou therefore now advise Or hear what my minde first thoughts present, Let us divide our labours.... | |
 | Brandt Aymar - 2006 - 416 pages
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