...Virgil's works, or those of "the noble and majestic" Milton: — Flowers worthy of Paradise, which no nice art In beds, and curious knots, but nature boon...Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain. Though prim regularity, and " parterres embroidered like a petticoat," were in his time in high vogue,...

...EDINBURGH ; AND O. AND J. ROBINSON, LIVERPOOL. " Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice art, In bed and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse, on hill, and dale, and plain." MILTON. " I cannot but think the very complacency and satisfaction which л man takes in these works...

...strictly regular. Milton, describing the garden of Eden, prefers justly grandeur before regularity : Flowers worthy of paradise, which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but Nature's boon * The influence of this connexion, surpassing all bounds, is still visible in many gardens...

...ROBINSON, LIVERPOOL. mm V.'J" Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not uice art, In bed and curious knot*, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse, on hill, and dale, and plain." MILTON. " I cannot but think the very complacency and satisfaction which a man takes in these works...

...shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed 240 Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art j In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd...• The open field, and where the unpierced shade 245 Imbrown'd the noontide bowers : Thua was this place— ^ A happy rural seat of various view ; -~—...

...The same effect is achieved later in this opening description. Nature, we are told, strewed flowers: Both where the morning Sun first warmly smote The open field, and where the unpierc't shade Imbround the noontide Bowrs . . . (IV, 244—246) Again the word suggests both the...

...crisped brooks, — " With mazy error under pendant shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Poufd forth profuse, on hill and dale and plain, Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The...

...natural design: With mazy error under pendant shades Ran Nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flow'rs worthy of Paradise which not nice Art In Beds and...Sun first warmly smote The open field, and where the unpierc't shade Imbrown'd the noontide Bow'rs: Thus was this place, A happy rural seat of various view....

...1967), 540. 33. The quotation is from Milton, who describes an ideal world of natural nurture made up of Flowers worthy of Paradise which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill and dale and plain. See Paradise Lost, ed. Alastair Fowler (London, 1971),...

...240 Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain, Both where...sun first warmly smote The open field, and where the unpierc'd shade Embrowned the noontide bowers. Thus was this place, A happy rural seat of various view:...