Careful Words

landscape (n.)

landscape (v.)

The low'ring element

Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 490.

Love is like a landscape which doth stand

Smooth at a distance, rough at hand.

Robert Hegge: On Love.

Ever charming, ever new,

When will the landscape tire the view?

John Dyer (1700-1758): Grongar Hill. Line 102.