...gardening, in the times when he lived, in those well-known verses:— " Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Poured out profuse on hill, and dale, and plain, Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The...

...unsocial: well, the bird is free, And loves the covert — so in truth do I. III. Flowers worthy Paradise, which not nice Art, In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pours forth profuse. HILTON. No spot so distant, in this spacious vale, But I had won it,— whether...

...words — bee or bird-like — are still murmuring among flowers, — " Flowers, worthy of Paradise, which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain, Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The open field,...

...under pendent shades , Ran nectar , visiting each plant , and fed Flow •rs wborthy of Paradise , which not nice art In beds and curious knots • but nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on bill , and dale • and plain Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The open field...

...winged words—bee or bird-like—are still murmuring among flowers,— " Flowers, worthy of Paradise, which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain, Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The open field,...

...is being said, allusions to Great Mother Nature; as in Milton's description of the paradisal flowers which not nice Art In Beds and curious knots, but nature boon Pourd forth profuse2 Sometimes it is difficult to say whether Great Mother Nature, even rhetorically, is intended...

...to the lines in which Milton appears to disparage the formal garden, viz.: Flours worthy of Paradise which not nice Art In Beds and curious Knots, but Nature boon Powrd forth profuse on Hill and Dale and Plaine. their landscape suggestions more from him than from...

...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...

...mazy error under pendant shades Ran Nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flow'rs worthy of Paradise which not nice Art In Beds and curious Knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on Hill and Dale and Plain, Both where the morning Sun first warmly smote The open field, and...

...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),...