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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,... "
A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ... - Page 12
by Samuel Johnson - 1805
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The Works: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings by Robert Anderson, Volume 2

John Moore - 1820 - 476 pages
...permit him to enjoy the exhilarating view of green fields, and to breath the free air of the country, As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses...morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight, The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy...
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A view of society and manners in Italy

John Moore, Robert Anderson - English literature - 1820 - 470 pages
...permit him to enjoy the exhilarating view of green fields, and to breath the free air of the country, As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses...morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight^ The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown ; • . O, grant me honest fame, or grant me none. — Pope. V2. As one, who long in populous city pent^ Where houses...annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breath*", Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books

John Milton - Fall of man - 1820 - 342 pages
...Egyptian spouse. Much he the place admir'd. the person more. As one who, long in populous city pent, 445 Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth...morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thins met conceives delight, The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, 450...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 2

John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 356 pages
...sapient king Held dalliance with his fair Egyptian spouse. Much he the place admir'd, the person more. As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses...morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or...
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The Cottager's monthly visitor, Volume 1

1821 - 614 pages
...pleasure as they would naturally feel, is very prettily described by the Poet Milton : — " — • One who long in populous city pent, . . • Where...breathe ,. Among the. pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight, ' i The smell of grain, or tedded grass. or kine....
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Paradise lost, a poem

John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...Egyptian spouse. Much he the place admir'd, the person more. As one who, long in populous city pent, 445 Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth...morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight, The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, 450...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 4

Books - 1821 - 408 pages
...metaphysics and the stir and turmoil of the great world, to the pastoral repose of Thealma, we feel like one, who, long " in populous city pent, where houses thick and sewers annoy the air," inhales again the spirit-stirring breeze of the fields, expatiates amidst smiling plains and embowered...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 4

Books - 1821 - 404 pages
...metaphysics and the stir and turmoil of the great world, to the pastoral repose of Thealma, we feel like one, who, long " in populous city pent, where houses thick and sewers annoy the air," inhales again the spirit-stirring breeze of the fields, expatiates amidst smiling plains and embowered...
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The calendar of nature: designed for the instruction and entertainment of ...

Thomas Gosden - 1822 - 80 pages
...beholder. It is at this season that we can peculiarly feel the beauty of these charming lines of MILTON — As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses...morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight, The smell of grain* or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy,...
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