| John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...open field, and where the unpierc'd shade Imbrown'd the noontide bow'rs : Thus was this place A happy rural seat of various view ; Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and baLn, Others whose fruit burnish'd with golden rind Hung amiable, Hesperian fables true, 15* If true,... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...place 246 A happy rural seat of various view ; Groves whose rich trees wept od'rous gums and balm, Others whose fruit burnish'd with golden rind Hung amiable, Hesperian fables true, 250 If true, here only,' and of delicious taste : Betwixt them lawns, or level downs, and flocks Grazing... | |
| Jacques Delille - French literature - 1801 - 216 pages
...this place A happy rural scat, of various view: Groves, whose rich trees wept odorous gums, and balm; Others, whose fruit, burnish'd with golden rind, Hung amiable; Hesperian fables true, If true, here only, and of delicious taste ! Betwixt them lawns, or level-downs, and flocks Grazing... | |
| John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...this placs A happy rural seat of various view ; KZ Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm, Others whose fruit burnish'd with golden rind Hung amiable, Hesperian fables true, 250 If true, here only', and of delicious taste : Betwixt them lawns, or level downs, and flock* Grazing... | |
| George Tappen - Architecture - 1806 - 336 pages
...will here quote Milton's beautiful description of the Garden of Eden : -Thus was this place A bappy rural seat of various view ; Groves, whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm, Others, whose fruit, burnish'd with golden rind, Hung amiable : — Hesperian fables true, If... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...245 Imbrown'd thenoont;cl.ebo\v'rs: thus was this place A happy rural scat of various view; Grovts whose rich trees wept odorous gums and halm, ' Others...with golden rind Hung amiable, Hesperian fables true, 250 If true, here only', and of delicious taste: Betwixt them lawns, or level downs, and flocks Grazing... | |
| Robert Renny - Enslaved persons - 1807 - 368 pages
...objects, one can scarcely help exclaiming with the poet already quoted, Thus was this place, A happy rural seat of various view: Groves, whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm ; Others, whose fruit, burnish'd with golden rind Hung amiable, Hesperian fables true, If true,... | |
| Robert Renny - Enslaved persons - 1807 - 366 pages
...this place, A happy rural seat of various view: Groves, whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm; Others, whose fruit, burnish'd with golden rind Hung amiable, Hesperian fables true, If true, here only; and of delicious taste, Betwixt them lawns, or level downs, and flocks Grazing... | |
| 1808 - 560 pages
...objects, one can scarcely help exclaiming with the poet already quoted, Thus was this place, A happy rural seat of various view : Groves, whose rich trees wept odorous gums and baton ; Others, whose fruit, urnish'd with golden rind Hung amuble, Hesperian fables true, If true,... | |
| 1828 - 590 pages
...the fourth hook of the Paradise Lost :— " Thus was this place A happy rural seat of various views ; Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and halm, Others whose fruit, hurnish'd with golden rind, Hung amiahle, Hesperian fahles true, If true, here only, and of delicious... | |
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