...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...

...in crisped brooks, Rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold, With mazy error, under pendant shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant ; and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on bill, and dale, and plain, Both where the morning sun first warmly...

...Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art j 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 where the unpierced shade 245 Imbrown'd the noontide bowers : Thua was this place— ^ A...

...the crisped brooks, Rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold, With mazy error under pendant shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant ; and fed Flowers...nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain, Bot where the morning sun first warmly smote The...

...2-10 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 where the unpierc'd shade 245 Imbrown'd the noontide bow'rs. Thus was this A happy rural...

...imitation of nature." Describing Eden, he speaks of the river which "with many a rill" watered the garden, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth ! The poet goes on to draw it as a place " of various view," in which "lawns or level...

...Flow'rs worthy of Paradise , which not nice Art In beds and curions knots , but nature boon Poui'd forth profuse 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'rs ; thus \vas this place A happy...

...against the artificial taste of gardening in the times \vheu 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 liill and dale and plain. Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The open field,...

...blossoms and flowers ; and in no situation can these be seen in such profusion as in our glens. — " which not nice art In beds and curious knots ; but nature boon, Pours forth profuse—- Both where the morning sun first warmly imitei The open field, and where the...

...mazy error under pendent shades .•••'. j .' Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed 240 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 snn first warmly smote The...