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 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 308 pages
...the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight : The smell of ^rain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound. Those who are conversant in the writings of polite authors, receive an additional entertainment from... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 490 pages
...hath elegantly set forth the same. , As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick ana sewers annoy the air Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoiu'd, from each thing met conceives delig The smell of grain, or tedded grass or kine, Or dairy,... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...elegantly set forth the same. As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick ana •ewers 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 or kine, Or dairy,... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 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...morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight j The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight; Die smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound ; If chance, with nymph-like step, fair virgin pass, What pleasing seem'd, for her now pleases more... | |
 | 1810 - 482 pages
...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 auilny the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and faj-ras... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 530 pages
...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,...kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, -each rural sound. Those who are conversant in the writings of polite authors, receive an additional entertainment from... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 628 pages
...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,...annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to hreathe Among the pleasant villages, and farms Adjoiu'd, from each thing met conceives delight : The... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...adnm-'d, the person more. As one who, long in- populous city pent, <45 Where houses thick and sowers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thiug met conceives delight, I'd* smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, 450... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...praije. Unblemish'd let me live, -or die unknown ; O, grant me honest fame, or grant me none.— * 12. As one, who long in populous city pent, Where houses...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, .'... | |
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