...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...