 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,...  The Retrospective Review.. - Page 249edited by - 1821Full view - About this book
 | 1833 - 784 pages
...grass and leaves, and the simplicity of the country. Is it not John Milton who singeth thus : — * 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... | |
 | Anne Manning - 1833 - 358 pages
...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 thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing, on a summer's day; to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each... | |
 | 1833 - 796 pages
...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 annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each... | |
 | William Hone - Days - 1835 - 876 pages
...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 Adjoined, from... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 416 pages
...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 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 402 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Literature - 1861 - 676 pages
...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 and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each... | |
 | Thomas Miller - Country life - 1837 - 466 pages
...the senses in his description of a citizen sallying forth to enjoy the beauties of the country ! " 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... | |
 | 1838 - 876 pages
...!" Such it the aspiration of the man surrounded by the vexations of urban lite. Heir Milton— 5U 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... | |
 | William Hone - 1839 - 874 pages
...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 Adjoined, from... | |
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