| 1822 - 600 páginas
...simple habits of these secluded mountaineers. PORTRAIT OF A SEPTUAGENARY J BY HIMSELF. •' I will conduct you to a hill-side, laborious indeed at the first ascent, but <•!«<_' so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospects and melodious sounds, that the harp of... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1823 - 320 páginas
...of a musical sentence, we may take the following from Milton; " We shall conduct you to a hill side, laborious indeed at the first ascent; but else so...charming." Every thing in this sentence conspires to render it harmonious. The words are well chosen; laborious, smooth, green, goodly, melodious, charming... | |
| William Banks - 1823 - 462 páginas
...as one of the most musical which the language affords : — " We shall conduct you to a hill side, laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so...side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming." A new era in the history of English Composition commenced with the Restoration. Englishmen, laying... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1823 - 458 páginas
...for an instance of a musical sentence, the following from Milton, in his treatise on Education : " We shall conduct you to a hill-side, laborious, "...smooth, "so green, so full of goodly prospects, and melo" dious sounds on every side, that the harp of Or" pheus was not more charming." Every thing in... | |
| John Walker - 1823 - 406 páginas
...Milton, in his Treatise on Education. " We " shall conduct you to a hill-side, laborious, in" deed, at the first ascent ; but else so smooth, " so green, so full of goodly prospects and me" lodious sounds on every side, that the harp " of Orpheus was not more charming." Every thing in... | |
| 1822 - 768 páginas
...We ascended the mountain, which proved somewhat difficult of ascent " but else so green, so smooth, so full of goodly prospects and melodious sounds on...side," that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming. I do not know what led my fellow-traveller so far from home, but one thing is certain, that we did... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1824 - 510 páginas
...for an instance of a musical sentence, the following from Milton, in his treatise on Educa tion : " We shall conduct you to a hill-side, laborious indeed, at the first ascent : but else, BO smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect*, and Q melodious sounds on every side, that the harp... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 472 páginas
...Milton has frequent allusions in other places. As in PL iii. 17. and in the Tractate on Education, " Melodious sounds on every side " that the harp of Orpheus was " not more charming." We have the same allusion in the Preface to Philips's Theatrum Poetarum, in which are more manifest... | |
| Horace Smith - 1825 - 374 páginas
...and direct, For the present we drop the curtain. PORTRAIT OF A SEPTUAGENARY; BY HIMSELF.* " I will conduct you to a hill-side, laborious indeed at the...so full of goodly prospects and melodious sounds, that the harp of Orpheus was not half so charming." AFTER all the critical denunciations against the... | |
| Precept - 1825 - 302 páginas
...a Roman legion. In this letter, he might indeed well say that he would " conduct us to a hill-side, so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospects and melodious sounds, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming :" the plan of study he proposes is so truly delightful,... | |
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