...unpierced shade Imbrown'd the noontide bowers : thus was this place A happy rural seat of various view ; Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm, Others whose fruit, burnish'd with golden rind. Hung amiable, (Hesperian fables true, If true, here only,) and of delicious...

...Our death, the tree of knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of good bought dear by knowing ill." 217. "Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm, Others whose fruit burnish'd with golden rind Hung amiable, Hesperian fables true, If true, here only, and of del'cious...

...was this place, A happy rural seat of various view : Groves, whose rich trees wept odorous gums of balm ; Others, whose fruit burnished with golden rind,...and flocks Grazing the tender herb, were interposed, Or palmy hillock ; or the flowery lap Of some irriguons valley spread her store — Flowers of all...

...of the fertile ground he caused to grow All trees of noblest kind for sight, smell, taste. MILTON. Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm;...Others whose fruit burnished with golden rind, Hung amiable,—Hesperian fables true, If true, here only,—and of delicious taste.—MILTON. VIEW OF THE...

...Others whose fruit burnisht with Golden Rinde Hung amiable, Hesperian Fables true, If true, here onely, and of delicious taste: Betwixt them Lawns, or level Downs, and Flocks Grasing the tender herb, were interpos'd, Or palmie hilloc, or the flourie lap Of som irriguous Valley...

...the Duke of Portland, vol. 6 (London, 1901), p. 41. ^Bentley's text, IV, 250-51 (p. 114), reads thus: Hung amiable, [Hesperian Fables true. If true, here only] and of delicious taste. . . . prime pattern of the captious art, Out tibbalding poor Tibbald, taps his part; Holds high the...

...used, had been the pledge Of immortality. (Bk. IV, 1. 183-201) 69 A happy rural seat of various view: re' Gracing the tender herb, were interposed, Or palmy hillock; or the flowery lap Of some irriguous valley...

...delight takes place. Listen, for example, as Milton presents the "happy rural seat of various view": Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm,...and flocks Grazing the tender herb, were interposed, Or palmy hillock, or the flowery lap Of some irriguous valley spread her store, Flowers of all hue,...

...a wide variety of possible interpretations: thus was this place A happy rural seat of various view; Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm....and flocks Grazing the tender herb, were interposed. Or palmy hillock, or the flowery lap Of some irriguous valley spread her store. Flowers of all hue,...

...unpierc'd shade Embrowned the noontide bowers. Thus was this place, A happy rural seat of various view: Others whose fruit, burnished with golden rind, Hung amiable - Hesperian fables true, 250 If true, here only - and of delicious taste. Betwixt them lawns, or level downs, and flocks Grazing...