...equal truth, our great countryman, Milton. Speaking of the flowers of Paradise, he calls them flowers Which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Poors forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain. Par. Ixnt, iv. 245. Soon after this he subjoins,...

...with mazy error under pendant shades : -" Visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Poured forth profuse, on hill, and dale, and plain ; Both where the morning sun first warmly smote...

...gardening, in the times when he lived, in those well-known verses:— " Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Poured out profuse on hill, and dale, and plain, Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The...

...words — bee or bird-like — are still murmuring among flowers, — " Flowers, worthy of Paradise, which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain, Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The open field,...

...winged words—bee or bird-like—are still murmuring among flowers,— " Flowers, worthy of Paradise, which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain, Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The open field,...

...under pendent shades , Ran nectar , visiting each plant , and fed Flow •rs wborthy of Paradise , which not nice art In beds and curious knots • but nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on bill , and dale • and plain Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The open field...

...is being said, allusions to Great Mother Nature; as in Milton's description of the paradisal flowers which not nice Art In Beds and curious knots, but nature boon Pourd forth profuse2 Sometimes it is difficult to say whether Great Mother Nature, even rhetorically, is intended...

...to the lines in which Milton appears to disparage the formal garden, viz.: Flours worthy of Paradise which not nice Art In Beds and curious Knots, but Nature boon Powrd forth profuse on Hill and Dale and Plaine. their landscape suggestions more from him than from...

...So, too, apparently felt Milton when he wrote that the rivers of Eden fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill and dale and plain. _i English taste, at any rate, recoils instinctively...

...mazy error under pendant shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Poufd forth profuse, on hill and dale and plain, Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The...