...enthusiasm of a brother poet, the original scene of that beautiful passage in the L'Allegro ; Strait mine eye hath caught new pleasures ; While the landscape round it measures ; &c. and observes, that the prospect is so exactly delineated, that there is not a single useless...

...blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures While the landscape round it measures* Russet lawns, and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks do stray; Mountains on whose harren breast The lah'ring clouds...

...whets his sithe, And ev'ry shepherd tells his tale / ^. Under the hawthorn in the dale, fa""'^ • Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, ' While...the landscape round it measures, Russet lawns, and fallows gray, . •. Where the nibbling flocks do stray ; Mountains on whose barren breast The lab'ring...

...gorse, and heather. With one only omission, the conception of the poet is realised. " Straight the eye hath caught new pleasures, While the landscape round it measures : Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray; Mountains, on whose barren breast, The labouring...

...morn, in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill. IDEM, HAMLET, A. i. S. 1. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, While...the landscape round it measures ; Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray. MILTON'S L'ALLEGRO. Here, in full light, the russet...

...And the mower whets his sythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Lo ! mine eye hath caught new pleasures, While the landscape round it measures — Russet lawns and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray ; Mountains, on whose barren breast The labouring...

...second syllables, ver andfer, should not rhyme ; they must be identical or monotonous : thus, Milton, " Straight mine eye hath caught new plea-sures, While the landscape round it mea-sures." L' Allegro. Such are, therefore, more properly penultimate rhymes. O, oo, Bow, Down, Doom, Wrong, Son,...

...interspersed with iambic measure, for variety of rhythm. It is exemplified in Milton's L' Allegro. " Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, While...the landscape round it measures ; . Russet lawns and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and...

...And the mower whets his sithe, 15 And every shepherd tells his tale, Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, While...the landscape round it measures, Russet lawns, and fallows gray, 20 Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Meadows trim, with daisies pied, Shallow brooks...

...' has described the scenery of Horton as it appears to one who wanders trustfully about it : — " Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, While...the landscape round it measures ; Russet lawns and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray. Meadows trim, with daisies pied ; Shallow brooks...