 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
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...what case is vale, and haw 2. What time is this p | governed ? IX. THE CHARMS OF NATURE. " 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. O HOW canst thou renounce... | |
 | Sir Thomas More (Saint) - 1852 - 348 pages
...author, we see, was no friend to the penances of monkery; but thought, like Milton, that "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." Tractate on Education, § 22. Select Prose Works, 1. 164.... | |
 | 1852 - 342 pages
...how to grumble. "In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant," says Milton, "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." If Nature is mean enough to rejoice after having defrauded... | |
 | 1852 - 746 pages
...those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is soft and pleasant, it were an injury and wllenness against nature not to go out and see her riches and partake with her rejoicings with heaven and earth." We certainly do not envy the disposition of the man who... | |
 | 1853 - 618 pages
...exercises at home, there is another opportunity of gaining pleasure 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 in heaven and earth. I should not therefore be a persuader to them of studying much... | |
 | Seacome Ellison - 1854 - 120 pages
...which it floats, and grateful for the rays that relieve its native gloom." — MARTINEAU. " 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. " Whether we consider the ocean as rearing its... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 1232 pages
...those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and suttenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with Heaven and earth. I should not therefore be a persuader to them of studying much... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 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 earth. I should not therefore be a persuader to them of studying much... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 202 pages
...social sweetness, on the self-same bough," THOMSON'S Seasons, 155. Vernal delight and joy.] "In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and...nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake with her rejoicing with heaven and earth." — Tractate on Education. Again, in his letter to Thomas... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 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 earth. I should not therefore be a persuader to them of studying much... | |
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