 | Richard Brindley Hone - 1833 - 414 pages
...Eden, he speaks of the river which "with many a rill" watered the garden, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth ! The poet goes on to draw it as a place " of various view," in which "lawns or level downs were interposed"... | |
 | Antislavery movements - 1833 - 370 pages
...taste of gardening in the times \vheu he lived, in those well-known verses, — " Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Poured out profuse on liill and dale and plain. Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The open... | |
 | Scotland - 1833 - 1034 pages
...blossoms and flowers ; and in no situation can these be seen in such profusion as in our glens. — " which not nice art In beds and curious knots ; but nature boon, Pours forth profuse—- Both where the morning sun first warmly imitei The open field, and where the... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...under pendent shades .•••'. j .' Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed 240 Flow'rs worthy of Paradise, which not nice art In beds and curious knots,...hill, and dale, and plain, Both where the morning snn first warmly smote The open field, and where the uupierc'd shade 245 Imbrown'd the noontide bow'rs:... | |
 | Anthologies - 1834 - 506 pages
...Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature's boon Poured out profuse on hill and dale and plain, Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The open field, and where the unpierced shade Embrowned the noon-tide bowers. Then was this place A happy rural seat... | |
 | English periodicals - 1924 - 970 pages
...nothing more. So, too, apparently felt Milton when he wrote that the rivers of Eden fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill and dale and plain. _i English taste, at any rate, recoils instinctively... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Downing - Gardens - 1991 - 586 pages
...— " With mazy error under pendant shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Poufd forth profuse, on hill and dale and plain, Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The... | |
 | Richard Braverman - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 366 pages
...design: With mazy error under pendant shades Ran Nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flow'rs worthy of Paradise which not nice Art In Beds and curious Knots,...the morning Sun first warmly smote The open field, and where the unpierc't shade Imbrown'd the noontide Bow'rs: Thus was this place, A happy rural seat... | |
 | Karl Kroeber, Gene W. Ruoff - Poetry - 1993 - 520 pages
...quotation is from Milton, who describes an ideal world of natural nurture made up of Flowers worthy of Paradise which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill and dale and plain. See Paradise Lost, ed. Alastair Fowler (London, 1971),... | |
 | Carol Adlam, Rachel Falconer, Vitalii Makhlin, Leslie Pinfield - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 396 pages
...With mazy error under pendant shades 240 Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of paradise which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill and dale and plain, Both where the morning sun first warmly smote 245... | |
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With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers 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... 
