...being read by all who love true poetry; who, when they first peruse him, are conducted to a hill side, laborious, indeed, at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds, on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming. Chaucer...

...the melody suffering. For, observe, how finely the members of the period swell one above another. ' So smooth, so green' — so full of goodly prospects and melodious sounds on every side ;' — till the ear, prepared by this gradual rise, is conducted to that full close on which it rests...

...Milton, in his Treatise on Education : " We shall conduct you to a hill-side, laborious, indeed, d the first ascent; but else, so smooth, so green, so...side that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming." Every thing in this sentence conspires to promote the harmony. The words are happily chosen ; full...

....demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hill side, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education...ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming. — MILTON....

...demonstra>-J tion of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hill-side, where Ijvill point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education;...ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming. I doubt...

...demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hill-side, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education;...ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming. I doubt...

...education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so gnfen, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming. I doubt not but ye shall have more ado to drive our dullest and laziest youth, our stocks and stubs,...

...and most docile age ; “—but I do say with him that the path of a virtuous and noble education is “so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospects...every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming,”—I do say that the kind of education which here I advocate will be fruitful of the mightiest...

...virtuous and noble education, so laborious indeed at first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, and so full of goodly prospects and melodious sounds on...side that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming. " His School Described. — Milton defines what he means by education in the following words: " I call...

...perpendicular, but which, like that "right path of a virtuous and noble education" described by Milton, is "laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming," and,...