In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth. The Prose Works of John Milton - Page viiiby John Milton - 1845Full view - About this book
| Thomas Colley Grattan - 1845 - 932 pages
...below; the inagnific hills shooting far up above the clouds ! Was not Milton right when he said, " It were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicings with heaven and earth ?" Is it not rapture to have burst one's prisonbars — to... | |
| 1846 - 844 pages
...learned." In the vernal season of the year, when the air was calm and pleasant, he pronounces, that it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicings with heaven and earth. As regards travelling, he recommends that we should see our... | |
| Harvard University - 1846 - 72 pages
...and when he pronounces it, " in those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth." But passing over this topic, however important, as not falling... | |
| John Milton - 1847 - 568 pages
...manly beauty; no one surpassed him in elegance of manners; and his carriage "bespoke undaunteduess and courage." His voice was variably musical, and...his history which connects it with that of LEONORA BAROM of Rome. He was now suddenly captivated by the person and manners of MART, a daughter of RICHARD... | |
| T. M. Hughes - 1847 - 382 pages
...fiera. Lope de Vega, Arcadia. " To pluck the summer flowers, and brush the dewy grass." " In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and...Nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with Heaven and Earth."—Milton, Tractate on Education, § 22. VHI. " Invoked the... | |
| John Milton - 1848 - 540 pages
...there is another opportunity of gaining experience to be won from pleasure itself "abroad ; in those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and...nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and ea th. JI should not therefore be a persuader to them of studying... | |
| William Maxwell - 1848 - 460 pages
...As fair, asjocund ; but I am no more The thing I was. — R. Fanshawe—1653. VERNAL WALKS. In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and...against Nature, not to go out and see her riches, and participate in her rejoicings with heaven and earth. — Milton. AN APOLOGY FOR THE TELEGRAPH, In answer... | |
| Enoch Lewis, Samuel Rhoads - 1848 - 856 pages
...sentiment in his ' Tractate on Education.' ' In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is soft and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against...nature, not to go out and see her riches and partake in her rejoicings with heaven and earth.' The true foundation of the vernal deligld which is here so... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1849 - 450 pages
...sentiment in his Tractate on Education! " In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is soft and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against...Nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicings with heaven and earth." III. (2.) Influence of the Imagination on Happiness.] One... | |
| J. D. Bell - 1850 - 486 pages
...V. UTILITARIANISM. "In those vernal seasons of the year," says John Milton, " when the air is soft and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against...Nature, not to go out and see her riches and partake in her rejoicings, with heaven and earth." Not a few people may justly be charged with this "injury... | |
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