 | Flower gardening - 1850 - 400 pages
...occasion, I could not but reflect upon a beautiful simile in Milton : ' 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 Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...fair Egyptian spouse. Much he the place admired, the person more. 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 Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives... | |
 | Charles Knight - England - 1851 - 492 pages
...noise ; and all those other rural sights and sounds that are so refreshing to the eye and ear of " One who long in populous cities pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issues on a summer's morn , to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined." We turn northward.... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...his fair Egyptian spouse Much he the place admir'd, the person more. As one who long in populous city h summer's mom, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives... | |
 | Robert Pashley - Poor - 1852 - 516 pages
...which is so great a cause of immorality, disease, and death, among the poorer classes, when they are In populous cities pent, Where houses thick, and sewers, annoy the air. The indigent classes seem to suffer, in respect of their excessive mortality, in some parts of other... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 858 pages
...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 annoy the air, Forth issuing on n summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farm.« Cercó boschetti e campi , ù qualehe... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...clouds! Great God! These give to mortal eyes a glimpse of Thee! Robert Montgomery. ANNOYANCE. As he who long in populous cities pent. Where houses thick, and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Amongst the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 474 pages
...fair Egyptian spouse. Much he the place admired, the person more : 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 Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1853 - 902 pages
...occasion, I could not but reflect upon a beautiful simile in Milton : '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 Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 428 pages
...peculiarly feel the beauty of these charming lines of Milton : — 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... | |
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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 Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass,... 
