 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 thing met conceives delight The smell of grain, or tedded grass,...  Bentley's Miscellany - Page 1641861Full view - About this book
 | Books - 1821 - 408 pages
...metaphysics and the stir and turmoil of the great world, to the pastoral repose of Thealma, we feel like one, who, long " in populous city pent, where houses thick and sewers annoy the air," inhales again the spirit-stirring breeze of the fields, expatiates amidst smiling plains and embowered... | |
 | Books - 1821 - 404 pages
...metaphysics and the stir and turmoil of the great world, to the pastoral repose of Thealma, we feel like one, who, long " in populous city pent, where houses thick and sewers annoy the air," inhales again the spirit-stirring breeze of the fields, expatiates amidst smiling plains and embowered... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 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...morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy,... | |
 | Thomas Gosden - 1822 - 80 pages
...It is at this season that we can peculiarly feel the beauty of these charming lines of MILTON — As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick...morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight, The smell of grain* or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy,... | |
 | 1822 - 666 pages
...CHARACTER OF A TRUE POET. A> one who long in populous city pent, \\ here houses thick and sewers annov the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe...Adjoined, from each thing met, conceives delight." PAU. LOST. WITH feelings like those above described, we turn from the feverish ucubrations of our modern... | |
 | 1822 - 206 pages
...and the poet Cowper a gardener. Riding and walking in the country are most excellent recreations, For one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, . Forth issuing on a summers morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms. MILTON. But they should, if possible,... | |
 | Thomas R. Joliffe - Egypt - 1822 - 534 pages
...rather less enchanting ; and I shall probably quit my squalid abode with much the same sensations, As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a Eammer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives... | |
 | English essays - 1822 - 714 pages
...metaphysics, and the stir and turmoil of the great world, to the pastoral repose of Theahna, we feel like one, who long ' in populous city pent, where houses thick and sewers annoy the air,' inhales again the spirit-stirring breeze of the fields, expatiates amidst smiling plains and embowered... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 862 pages
...described or accounted for. On this occasion I could not but reflect upon a beautiful simile in Milton : As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick...morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight t The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 288 pages
...described or accounted for. On this occasion I could not but reflect upon a beautiful simile in Milton : As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick...morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight: The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy,... | |
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