...Bussct lawns and fallows grey, Meadows trim with daisies pied. Towers and battlements it sees, Boaomod high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies. The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes." In what contrast with these pictures are tho nightly pleasures of tho cheerful man :— " Towered cities...

...hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landskip round it measures, 70 Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Mountains on whose barren breast The lab'ring clouds do often rest, Meadows trim with daisies pied, 75 Shallow brooks and rivers wide. Towers...

...part of the poem we have only to remark, that if Mr. John Milton proposctb to make himself merry with Russet lawns, and fallows grey Where the nibbling...Shallow brooks, and rivers wide, Towers and battlements, &c. &c. ice, he will either find himself egregiousl« 1 disappointed, or he must possess a disposition...

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...emotions. Accordingly, the poet shews us, at one glance, and, at it were, with a single dash of his pen, Russet lawns, and fallows grey. Where the nibbling...labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pred, Shallow brooks and i ivers wide. The objects themselves are cheerful; for, besides having brooks,...

...poems, L'AIkgro, and II Penseroso. Russet lawns, and fatto-ws gi*?, Where the nibbling ftocU do tt».y, Mountains, on whose barren breast The labouring clouds...with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide. ^he objects themselves are cheerful; for, besides aving brooks, meadows, and flowers, we have the whistling...

...and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Mountains, on whose barren breast The lab'ring clouds do often rest, Meadows trim with daisies pied,...brooks, and rivers wide. Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where, perhaps, some beauty lies, The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes....

...hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures While the landscape round it measure*. Russet lawns, and fallows grey, Where the nibbling...flocks do stray; .Mountains on whose barren breast The lab'ring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and river* wide. Towers...

...eye hath caught new pleasures While the landscape round it measures, Russet lawns, and fallows grpy, Where the nibbling flocks do stray; Mountains on whose barren breast The lab'ring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide. Towers...