...first warmly smote The open field, and where the unpierced shade 245 Imbrowned the noontide bowers. Thus was this place A happy rural seat of various...trees wept odorous gums and balm, Others whose fruit, burnished with golden rind, Hung amiable, Hesperian fables true, 250 If true, here only, and of delicious...

...hill, and dale, and plain, The open field, and where the unpierced shade Embrowned the noontide bowers: thus was this place A happy rural seat of various...Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm, 1 .Probably the river formed by the junction of the Euphrates and Tigris, which flows southward. 3...

...unpierc'd shade Imbrown'd the noontide bow'rs. Thus was this place A happy rural seat of various views ; Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm,...burnish'd with golden rind, Hung amiable. Hesperian fallies true, If true, here only, and of delicious taste. Betwixt them lawns, or level downs and flocks...

...these passages is one in which the Garden is explicitly compared to the world of pastoral poetry: . . . Thus was this place, A happy rural seat of various view; Groves whose rich Trees wept odorous Gumms and Balme, Others whose fruit burnisht with Golden Rinde Hung amiable, Hesperian Fables true,...

...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...

...only used For prospect what, well used, had been the pledge Of immortality. (Bk. IV, 1. 183-201) 69 again; (1. 1—2) 2 Nothing in Nature' burnished with golden rind. Hung amiable — Hesperian fables true. If true, here only — and of delicious...

...example, was that the imagery was so sketchy as to allow of a wide variety of possible interpretations: thus was this place A happy rural seat of various...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...

...most excited contest over the uses of 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, Others whose fruit burnished with golden rind Hung amiable, Hesperian fables true, If true, here only, and of delicious...

...of the Hesperides: 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. 4:248-51 'If true, here only': is this parenthesis sad or angry? Is it a momentary lapse into nostalgia,...

..."level Downs," "palmie hilloc," "irriguous Valley," streams, and woods, is similar. Adam possesses A happy rural seat of various view; Groves whose rich trees wept odorous Gumms and Balme. . . . (IV, 247-48) This seems derived from Virgil's, "Fortunatorum Nemorum sedesque...