...gold, With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flow'rs worthy of Paradise, which not nice art In beds and curious knots...sun first warmly smote The open field, and where the unpierc'd shade Imbrown'd the noon-tide bow'rs.—Thus was this place A bappy rural seat of various...

...his pleasure,' in his great epic vaunts his Eden as a place where the brooks fed 1 Flow'rs worthy of Paradise, which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain ; ' a passage which seems to be rather overlooked...

...painter introduced in the grotto of Calypfo. Spenfer 's beauties are like the flowers in Paradile : " Which not nice Art " In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon " Pour'd forth profufe, on hill, and dale, and plain, " Both where the morning fun firfr. warmly fmote . " The open...

...Knots are figures planted in box, the lines of which frequently intersect each other. So, Milton: " Flowers, worthy Paradise, which not nice art " In...and curious knots, but nature boon " Pour'd forth." Steevens. 7 — We at time of year — ] The word We is not in the old copies. The context shows that...

...With mazy error under pendent shades Kan nectar, visiting each plant, and fed S-lO Flow'rs, worthy' of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots,...sun first warmly smote The open field, and where the unpierc'd shade 245 Imbrown'd thenoont;cl.ebo\v'rs: thus was this place A happy rural scat of various...

...like the flowers in Paradise : i ' Which not nice Art ' In heds and curious knots, fcut Nature hoon ' Pour'd forth profuse, on hill, and dale, and plain,...first warmly smote ' The open field, and where the unpierc'd shade ' Imhrown'd the noon-tide howers.' Par.LBiv. 241. If the Faerie Queene he destitute...

...defcribing the garden of Eden, prefers juftly grandeur before regularity : Flowers worthy of paradifc, which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd i rounded, like a prifon, with high walls excluding every external object. At firft view it may puzzle...

...of 1'aradisc, which not nice art In beds, and curious knots, hut nature boon, Pour'd forth profused on hill, and dale, and plain, Both where the morning...sun first warmly smote The open field, and where the unpierc'd shade Imbrown'd the noontide bow' re — Thus was this place A happy rural ¡eat of various...

...Virg. ^En.vi. Hoc fuperate jugum.— Ibid. Et tumulum capit.— Ibid. « Flow'rs worthy of paradife, which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Pour'd forth profufe on hill, and dale, and plain. Paradife Loft, book IT, fc For earth hath this variety from heaven...

...errour under pendant ftiades Ran nectar, viiiting each plant, and fed 240 Flowers worthy of Paradife, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon " In ipfo hortorum apice fans eft cximius, qui primilm argenteis aquarum vorticibus ebulliens, raox...