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" Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits and flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please, and sate the curious taste... "
British Theatre - Page 56
by John Bell - 1791
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The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture

Jonathan Sawday - Art - 1995 - 382 pages
...an invitation to possess nature, to master and hence control the superfluity of the natural world: Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth, With such a full and uiiwithdrawing hand, Covering the seas with spawn innumerable. But all to please, and sate the curious...
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The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque

David Bevington, Peter Holbrook - Drama - 1998 - 358 pages
...consume with riotous abandon. His language also evokes the opulence of masque spectacle and festivity: Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odors, fruits, and flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all...
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New Perspectives on Robert Graves

Patrick J. Quinn - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 244 pages
...(136-37). One recalls the marvelous, teeming fecundity of nature speculated upon by Milton in Comus, Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits and flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable. 709-12...
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The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots

Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...with the idea of dogs. See sner I. Again Milton, in Camus (1634): О foolishness of men . . . To fetch their precepts from the cynic tub Praising the lean and sallow Abstinence! George Meredith, in The Egoist (1879): "Cynics are only happy in making the world as barren to others...
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Complete Poems and Major Prose

John Milton - Poetry - 2003 - 1084 pages
...Comus. O foolishness of men! that lend their ears To those budge doctors of the Stoic Fur, And fetch their precepts from the Cynic Tub, Praising the lean...Abstinence. Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth 710 With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odors, fruits, and flocks, Thronging...
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The Major Works

John Milton - Literary Collections - 2003 - 1012 pages
...their ears To those budge doctors of the Stoic fur,0 And fetch their precepts from the Cynic tub,0 Praising the lean and sallow Abstinence. Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth, 710 With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the eanh with odours, fruits, and flocks, Thronging...
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Consuming Splendor: Society and Culture in Seventeenth-Century England

Linda Levy Peck - Business & Economics - 2005 - 460 pages
...projectors, the Duke of Buckingham, Tradescant, and Bernard Mandeville at the end of the seventeenth century: Wherefore did nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odors, fruits and flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all...
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Milton's Legacy

Kristin A. Pruitt, Charles W. Durham - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 278 pages
...his daughter. His seduction speech to the Lady captures beautifully his attack on all Puritan values: Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth, With such a full and unwithdrawing hand . . . But all to please and sate the curious taste? ...[I]f all the world Should in a pet of temperance...
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L' Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas

John Milton - 2006 - 66 pages
...COMUS. O foolishness of men! that lend their ears To those budge doctors of the Stoic fur, And fetch their precepts from the Cynic tub, Praising the lean...bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, and flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But...
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L' Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas

John Milton - Fiction - 2006 - 94 pages
...COMUS. 0 foolishness of men! that lend their ears To those budge doctors of the Stoic fur, And fetch their precepts from the Cynic tub, Praising the lean...bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, and flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But...
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