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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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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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英國文學史略

Benjamin Ifor Evans - English literature - 2006 - 520 pages
...(Paradise (Samson Agonistes) ffi— /A-fc— po ftfciiA£f ' ' ^ -ii£fL^ ' -i W ' Jit— (710-28) Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the Earth with odours, fruits and flocks, Throning the seas with spawn innumerable, But all...
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Shakespeare, 'A Lover's Complaint', and John Davies of Hereford

Brian Vickers - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 257 pages
...distant times, before society and civilization formulated moral and civil laws. So Milton's Comus argues: Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand . . . But all to please and sate the curious taste? . . . Beauty is nature's coin, must not be hoarded...
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Monsters of Our Own Making: The Peculiar Pleasures of Fear

Marina Warner - Social Science - 2007 - 470 pages
...about harmonious creation's purpose and its rationale. Comus asks, in a speech of intense lyricism: 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...
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