of a Country on its Inhabitants . 273 
of a beautiful fcenery of country, are noticed 
by feveral of the poets, and particularly by 
Milton. 
Is it not hence probable, that fuch a view 
would tend to infpire permanent chearfulnefs of 
temper, into thofe daily accuftomed to behold 
it, both, as it prefents great variety of fubjefts of 
attention and admiration, and as it fills the mind 
with reprefentations of pleafing obje&s ? 
Wantons as in her prime, and plays at will 
Her virgin fancies, pouring forth more fweet. 
Wild above rule, or art, enormous blifs, 
Paradife Loft, Book V. 
- ......... about me round I faw. 
Hill, dale, and fliady woods, and funny plains. 
And liquid lapfe of murmuring ftreams: by thefe. 
Creatures that liv’d, and mov’d, and walk’d, and flew : 
Birds on the branches warbling : all things fmil’d 
With fragrance, and with joy my heart o’erflow’d. 
Paradife Loft, Book VIIL 
Straight mine eye hath caught new pleafures. 
While the landfcape round it meafures, 
Ruflet lawns, and fallows gray, 
Where the nibbling flocks do ftray : 
Mountains, on whofe barren breaft 
The labouring clouds do often reft : 
Meadows, trim with dailies pied : 
Shallow brooks, and rivers wide : 
Towers, and battlements it fees, 
Bofom’d h.gh in tufted trees. 
Milton'% Allegro. 
Why fit we fad, when Phofphor ftiines fo clear, 
Andlavilh nature paints the purple year ? 
Pope's Firft Paftoral. 
Vql. I. ' T Cicero 
