| John Milton - 1784 - 276 pages
...Rolling on orient pearl and fands of gold, With mazy error under pendent fhades Ran Nectar, vifaing each plant, and fed. 240 Flow'rs, worthy! of Paradife,...but Nature boon Pour'd forth profufe on hill, and dais, and plain, J'oth where the morning-fun firft warmly fmote The open field, and where the unpierc'd... | |
| Mr. Marshall (William) - Botany - 1785 - 698 pages
...pearl and fands of gold, With mazy error under pendent (hades Ran nec~tar, vifiting each plant, and fed Flow'rs worthy of Paradife, which not nice art In...beds and curious knots, but nature boon Pour'd forth proWe on hill and dale and plain, * By the great Lord Chatham, who had a good tafte himfelf in mod«fn... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1788 - 590 pages
...regular. Milton, defcribing the garden of Eden, prefers juftly grandeur before regularity : Flowers worthy of paradife, which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Ponr'd walls excluding every external object. At firft view it may puzzle one to account for a tafle... | |
| John Milton - 1789 - 278 pages
...Rolling on orient pearl and fends of gold, With mazy error under pendent fhades Ran nectar, villting each plant, and fed 240 Flow'rs, worthy' of Paradife, which not nice art In beds :iii J curious knots, but nature boon 'Under a turf of fhade that on a green •. 325 Stood whifp'ring... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...equal truth, our great countryman, Milton. Speaking of the tbwträ of Paradile, he calls them flowers, -which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pours forth profufe on bill, and dale, .md plain. PL IV. »45. Soon after this he fubjoins — —... | |
| John Philips - Cider - 1791 - 214 pages
...them thank , Boon nature.} Boon nature is from the following beautiful paflage of Milton. /. Flowers worthy of Paradife, which not nice art In beds and...Pour'd forth profufe on hill, and dale, and plain. PL iv. 241. 442. ' that thtti annually fupplies Their vaults, and with her former liquid gifts Exhilarates... | |
| English literature - 1782 - 682 pages
...pearl and fand« of gold, "With mazy error under pendent (hades Ran neaar, vifitlng each plant, and fed Flow'rs worthy of Paradife, which not nice art, In beds and curious knots, but nature boon 1'our'd forth profufe on hill and dale and plain, Both where the morning fun 6rft warmly finóte The... | |
| John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed 140 Flow'rs, worthy' of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd fort'i profuse on hill and dale and plain, Both wiicie &e morning sun first varmly smot» The open... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed 240 Flow'rs, 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,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 842 pages
...vifitin^ each plant, and fed JW Flow'rs, wo:-rhy' of ParadilV, which notnueArt In bed» and cifious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profufe on hill and dale and pl»in, Both where the morning fun firft warmly fmote The 0|>en field, an J where the uvpicrc'd (hade... | |
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