...long absence from her. His descriptions are quite in the spirit of one " who, long in populous cities pent Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Amung the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each tiling met conceives delight :" and the gentle...

...the latter is no longer new any more than the former : — "As one who, long in populous city pent, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or...

...long absence from her. His descriptions are quite in the spirit of one " who, long in populous cities pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air,...farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight :'* and the gentle enthusiasm with which he dwells on such spots as are within the reach of every one...

...indeed, come to all men, when th»y would gladly escape from the crowd and confusion of common life, and Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms, would forget the thronging cares which have exhausted their hearts, in company with the lilies of ihe...

...saw methonght before that hour." Our " sage and serious " Milton has told us how a grave citizen " forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe among the pleasant villages and farms,'' * Tired. f Haste. % Thereby, past. || Boughs. and who has from each rural sight and sound conceived...

...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...

...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...farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight. — Milton, Paradise Lost As a work of art, I know few things more pleasing to the eye, or more capable...

...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...

...almost inevitable Milton's comparison of Satan's escape from hell into Eden with a Londoner's excursion: As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses...morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight, The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy,...

...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...