| Robert Potts - Scholarships - 1855 - 588 pages
...absurd to suppose, that boys will not be struck and captivated with vanity and trifles.—Dr Knox. 230. those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is...to them of studying much then, after two or three years that they have laid their grounds, but to ride out in companies with prudent and staid guides,... | |
| Robert Potts - 1855 - 1050 pages
...experience, to be won from pleasure itself abroad. In vernal seasons of the year, when the air is cairn and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against...to them of studying much then, after two or three years that they have laid their grounds, but to ride out in companies with prudent and staid guides,... | |
| Thomas Keightley - Poets, English - 1855 - 512 pages
...abroad. In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and a sullenness against nature not to go out and see her...persuader to them of studying much then, after two years that they have well laid their grounds,t but to ride out in companies, with prudent and staid... | |
| John Milton - 1855 - 202 pages
...clustered, In 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...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... | |
| John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...and Joy, So in Milton's ' Tractât« of Education :' " In those vernal seasons of the year, «lieu the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and...and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth." — TODD. Ь Whisper whence they ttole. This expression of the air's stealing and dispersing the sweets... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 542 pages
...the year," says Milton, in one of the finest sentences of his prose writings, " 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 of her rejoicings with heaven and earth." — Such is the temper of mind by which, in our early years,... | |
| Thomas Keightley - Poets, English - 1855 - 510 pages
...at home, 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 pleasant, it were an injury and a sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven... | |
| Manchester papers - 1856 - 346 pages
...dispositions and manners, to smoothen and make them gentle from rustic harshness and distempered passions. And in those vernal seasons of the year when the air is...and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth. These ways would try all their peculiar gifts of nature ; and if there were any secret excellence among... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...I 3. In what case ia vale, and how 2. What time is this ? | governed ? IX. THE CHARMS OF NATURE. " IN those vernal seasons of the year, when the air...and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth." — Mitioii, 0 How canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votaries yields... | |
| Kenelm Henry Digby - Conduct of life - 1856 - 418 pages
...gardens of their own that we must now follow, who feel, without having heard Milton say it, that " in those vernal seasons of the year when the air is...and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth." The spring is saluted with as much joy in the streets as in the fields. Hear how the May lord of London,... | |
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