 | C. Gough - 1853 - 428 pàgines
...is at this season that wo can 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... | |
 | Charles James Fox - 1853 - 508 pàgines
...fettered and controlled his mind ; and then quoted, with prodigious effect, the lines from 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1853 - 902 pàgines
...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, and sewers, annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages, and farms Adjoin'd, from... | |
 | William Cowper, Robert Southey - 1854 - 482 pàgines
...slough Plunging, and half despairing of escape, If chance2 at length he find a green-sward smooth 1 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... | |
 | Thomas Robert Jolliffe - 1854 - 294 pàgines
...rather less enchanting ; and I shall probably quit my squalid abode with much the same sensations, " 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... | |
 | John Gay - 1854 - 314 pàgines
...the fields at the proper season ; even as Maister Milton hath elegantly 'set forth the same. As one 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 564 pàgines
...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 thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pàgines
...Held dalliance with his fair Egyptian spouse. Much he the place admired, the person more. As one whp, 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... | |
 | John Timbs - 1855 - 818 pàgines
...: high-water mark at Newington, to 350 feet above it at Hampstead. TÄ '-if health of Londoners, " in populous city pent. Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air" (Af ilion}, contrasts favourably with the health of some of the large towns In England Sewers were... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1855 - 434 pàgines
...accounted for. On this occasion I could not but reflect upon a beautiful simile in Milton : As one who lone 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... | |
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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,... 
