| Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...Heaven. ODE ON SOLITUDE. WRITTEN WHEN THE AUTHOR WAS'ABOUT TWELVE YEARS OLD. HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in... | |
| John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...every thing necessary for man on this side the tomb ; — ODE TO SOLITUDE. Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound; Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground Whose herds with milk, whose field with bread. Whose flocks supply him with attire. Whose trees in... | |
| Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 426 pages
...the chastity of Lady Elizabeth, which lessened his power. ODE ON SOLITUDE4. HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in... | |
| William Jillard Hort - English literature - 1822 - 234 pages
...Mine be the gift of fruit and shade, Your songs be my reward. SOLITUDE. Pope. HAPPY the man whose wish and care, A few paternal acres bound ; Content to breathe his native air, On his own ground. Whose herds with milk ; whose fields with bread ; Whose flock's supply him with... | |
| Proverbs, Spanish - 1823 - 406 pages
...of which yields him the necessaries of life, feels not the want of money. " Happy the man whose wish and care " A few paternal acres bound ; " Content to breathe his native air, " On his own ground." POPE. Bmn principio la, mitad es hecho. — " A good beginning is half the work... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...straitw. ODE ON SOLITUDE. Written »hen the Author кas about Taxlve YearsaUHappy the man, whose wish to a few, Their food its insects, and its moss their nests : Others apart, far in the Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 416 pages
...with the enjoyment of uninterrupted leisure and alternate study and ease. HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in... | |
| Edward Nares - Precedence - 1824 - 424 pages
...poorer neighbours around him. Nothing else I think can excuse our Game Laws. " Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound ; Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground, Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in... | |
| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1824 - 84 pages
...chorus let all being raise ! All nature's incense rise ! ODE ON SOLITUDE.* HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire : Whose trees in... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 416 pages
...with the enjoyment of uninterrupted leisure and alternate study and ease. HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in... | |
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