... out in the morning, in company with a friend, to visit a place, where Milton spent some part of his life, and where, in all probability, he composed several of his earliest productions. It is a small village, situated on a pleasant... The British Prose Writers - Page 291821Full view - About this book
| Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 576 pages
...village, situated on a pleasant hill, about three miles from Oxford, and called Forest Hill, because s man depends absolutely upon his Maker for everything,...in all points, conform to his Maker's will. Thin L' Allegro, — "Sometime walking, not unseen, By hedge-row elms, or hillocks green • °i°i• While... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 582 pages
...village, situated on a pleasant hill, about three miles from Oxford, and called Forest Hill, because it formerly lay contiguous to a forest, which has...place of retirement after his first marriage, and he describos the beauties of his retreatin that fine passage of his L'Allégro, — " Sometime walking,... | |
| Maurice Paterson - 1880 - 392 pages
...village, situated on a pleasant hill, about three miles from Oxford, and called Forest Hill, because it formerly lay contiguous to a forest which has since been cut down. The poet chose this plice of retirement after his first marriage, and he describes the be iu ties of his retreat in that... | |
| John Fiske - Biography & Autobiography - 1902 - 778 pages
...before." In the bright morning thus ushered in, our poet would go forth on his walk, " By hedge row elms on hillocks green, » » • » While the ploughman near at hand Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd... | |
| John Fiske - Evolution - 1902 - 336 pages
...before." In the bright morning thus ushered in, our poet would go forth on his walk, " By hedge row elms on hillocks green, » * * * While the ploughman near at hand Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd... | |
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