 | John Milton - 1831 - 306 psl.
...person more. As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, 445 Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among...delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound ; 450 t If chance, with nymphlike step, fair virgin paes,... | |
 | 1832 - 438 psl.
...spouse. Much he the place admir'd, the person more. * Horne. As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth...delight— The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound ; If chance, with nymph-like step, fair virgin pass, What... | |
 | 1832 - 618 psl.
...is aptly illustrated by the well-known simile of Milton : " Ai one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth...delight, The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight* each rural sound ; If chance with nymph-like step fair virgin pass, [mure.... | |
 | 1832 - 406 psl.
...feel in an occasional excursion into the country : — " — One who long in populous cities pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth...delight, The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound." It is a fashion, but we think an ignorant and unfeelin?... | |
 | 1832 - 734 psl.
...one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on & summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages...conceives delight, The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kino, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound ; If chance with nymph-like step fair virgin pass,... | |
 | 1833 - 796 psl.
...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...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 psl.
...Egyptian spouse. Much he the place admir'd, the person pure. As one who long in populous city pent, 445 Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth...tedded grass, or kine, 450 Or dairy, each rural sight, cai-h rural sound; If chance , with nymph-like step , fair virgin pass, What pleasing seem'd, for her... | |
 | William Hone - 1835 - 876 psl.
...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...to breathe Among the pleasant villages, and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight : The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kinr, Or... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 514 psl.
...son épouse. Satan admire le lieu , encore plus la personne. Comme un homme long-temps enfermé dans Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth...delight, The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound; If chance, with nymph-like step, fair virgin pass, What... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 402 psl.
...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...farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight. Par. Lost, ix. 445. 3 If chance with nymph-like step fair virgiu pass, What pleasing seem'd, for her... | |
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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,... 
