...and the simplicity of the country. Is it not John Milton who singeth thus : — " As one who lon'af in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers...morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or...

...the artist with at least as much energy as the occasion required, repeated the following lines " ' As one who long in populous city pent Where houses...sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing, on a summer's day; to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight,...

...experienced when from the studios of Otho Venius and Van Oort, and from the gates of Antwerp,— " Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among...villages and farms, Adjoin'd, from each thing met, conceived delight; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy; each rural sight, each rural...

...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...to breathe Among the pleasant villages, and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight : The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kinr, Or...

...son épouse. Satan admire le lieu , encore plus la personne. Comme un homme long-temps enfermé dans Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth...with nymph-like step, fair virgin pass, What pleasing secm'd, for her now pleases more ; She most, and in her look sums all delight : Such pleasure took...

...steed, And winds his way with pleasure and with ease ; 10 So I, designing other themes, and call'd 1 As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses...farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight. Par. Lost, ix. 445. 3 If chance with nymph-like step fair virgiu pass, What pleasing seem'd, for her...

...steed, And winds his way with pleasure and with ease ; 10 So I, designing other themes, and call'd 1 As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses...farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight. Par. Lost, ix. 445. 3 If chance with nymph-like step fair virgin pass. What pleasing seem'd, for her...

...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 Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or...

...he that has felt that relief is fit to read or able to understand Milton's ravishing description, of One who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick...morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or...

...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...kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound. " ' Those who are conversant in the writings of polite authors, receive an additional entertainment...