 | English literature - 1818 - 638 pages
...words, and in what a different manner, does Milton tell the same story i " That fair field Of Knna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gather'd." We shall only add another extract, which approaches the confines of sublimity. The idea of the gradual... | |
 | 1836 - 790 pages
...interior of the island, the " Umbelicus Siciliae," as Cicero calls it ; that " fair field of Euna," where — " Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gathered." Thence our tourist traverses the desolate Leontine Fields, in his way to Syracuse ; and,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...leave*,, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces aud the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal Spring. Not wliich cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world j nor that sweet grove Of Daphne by Orontes,... | |
 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1820 - 342 pages
...leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance Led on th' eternal spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis 270 Was gather'd, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her thro' the world ; nor that sweet grove... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal Spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering...Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world ; nor that sweet grove Of Daphne by Orontes, and the inspired Castalian spring, might with this Paradise... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 396 pages
...scarcely be found in the Greek poetry. P. 155, 1. 25. She once amid those golden meadows play'd. • not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering...Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world. Paradise Lust, bv IDYLLITJM IV. Page 156, line 25. But as a hapless bird her young bewails. IN the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1896 - 616 pages
...Heaven, and Earth successively. The subject is the subjugation of Dis by Cupid, and its chief scene that fair field of Enna, ' where Proserpine, gathering flowers, Herself, a fairer flower, by gloomy Dits Was gathered.' The commencement is almost comic. The Lord of Erebus, the high sheriff of Shadows... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 806 pages
...out a maying when she met with that fatal adventure to which Milton alludes when he mentions — — That fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine, gathering...Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gather'd. — t. L. iv. 268. Since I am got into quotations, I shall conclude this head with Virgil's advice... | |
 | John Milton - 1823 - 306 pages
...the eternal Spring. Not that fair field Of Euna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairy flower, by gloomy Dis Was gather'd, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world ; nor that sweet grove Of Daphue by Orontes, and the inspired Castalian spring might with this Paradise... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...eternal spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flow'rs, Herself a fairer flow'r, l to the gazing eyes, And heighten'd by the diamond's circling rays, On that rapacious ha : nor that sweet grove Of Daphne by Orontes, and th' inspir'd Castalian spring, might with this Paradise... | |
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Was gather'd, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world... 
