...I was, perhaps, unconsciously illustrating those lines of our " old man eloquent," in which one, " Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among...farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight ;" but when the " fair virgin" is added to the picture, " What pleasing seem'd, for her now pleases...

...the place admir'd, the person moro. As one \vho long in populous city pent, Where houses thick anil ? Ill-fated race ! the softening arte of peace, Whate'er the humanizing Muses teach ; The godlike wisdo Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grasa, or kine, Or...

...dalliance with his fair Egyptian spouse. BOOK IX. MILTON. Much he the place admir'd, the person more. An 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...

...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...Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among tin' pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight; The smell of grain,...

...ayre,' the sewer gas of to-day, we are not told. Two centuries later Milton speaks of those who were ' in populous city pent, where houses thick and sewers annoy the air.' In the chief city of Utopia ' the filth and ordure was clean washed away in the running river without...

...his greatest tribute to the beauty of the earth, as tended and inhabited now by fallen man and woman: As one who long in populous City pent, Where Houses thick and Sewers annoy the Aire, Forth issuing on a Summers Morn to breathe Among the pleasant Villages and Farmes Adjoynd, from...

...enchanting simile powerfully interrogates Satan's mode of autonomous selfhood, and finds it wanting. 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,...

...on the sea" must be sung anew for those in peril in the sea. Chapter Twelve Of Farms and Factories Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight. — Milton, Paradise Lost As a work of art, I know...

...memorable and oddly brief Satan, after prolonged exile in Hell, visits Eden: As one who long in popnlous City pent, Where Houses thick and Sewers annoy the Air, Forth issuing on a Summers Morn to breathe Among the pleasant Villages and Farms Adjoind, from each thing met conceives...

...The smoaky glory of the Towne, " and even Milton's Satan approached the salubrious Eden "As one... long in populous City pent, / Where Houses thick and Sewers annoy the Air" (Paradise Lost, 9.445-446). Jonson's Epiccene (1609), which, untypically of the heteroglot plays of...