 | 1836 - 784 pages
...equal truth, our great countryman, Milton. Speaking of the flowers of paradise, he calls them flowers, which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Pours forth profuse on bill, and dale, and plain. PL 6. 4. e. 24S. Soon after this passage he subjoins... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...orient pearl and sands of gold, With mazy errour under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise ; which not nice...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 524 pages
...orient pearl and sands of gold, With mazy errour under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise ; which not nice...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... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pages
...orient pearl and sands of gold, With mazy errour under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise ; which not nice...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... | |
 | Thomas Miller - Country life - 1837 - 466 pages
...upstays Gently with myrtle band, mindless the while Herself, though fairest unsupported flower." " 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, Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The open... | |
 | William Russell - Europe - 1839 - 620 pages
...orient pearl and sands of gold, With mazy error, under pendant shades, Ran nectar ; visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise ; which not nice...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... | |
 | C. S. Lewis - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1990 - 356 pages
...is being said, allusions to Great Mother Nature; as in Milton's description of the paradisal flowers which not nice Art In Beds and curious knots, but nature boon Pourd forth profuse2 Sometimes it is difficult to say whether Great Mother Nature, even rhetorically, is... | |
 | English periodicals - 1924 - 970 pages
...Staffordshire pottery, but 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
...There, the crisped brooks, — " 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... | |
 | Karl Kroeber, Gene W. Ruoff - Poetry - 1993 - 520 pages
...1967), 540. 33. The 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),... | |
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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... 
