 | English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...remains ; Thy realm for ever lasts, thy own Messiah reigns ! 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... | |
 | Margaret Anne Doody, Professor of English Margaret Anne Doody - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 314 pages
...not. In his youth, Pope once produced a more successful Horatian carmen: Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. ("Ode on Solitude," lines 1-4)" But this, as he proudly claimed, is a juvenile work. And no poet of... | |
 | Stephen M. Pollan, Mark Levine - Business & Economics - 1988 - 266 pages
...and rewarding experience. CHAPTER TWO REAL ESTATE: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground, ALEXANDER POPE Home ownership is truly as American as apple pie. Nowhere else in the world is it as... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...you hear. That summons you to all the pride of pray'r: Ode on Solitude 107 Happy the man whose wish (1. 1 —4) 108 Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world,... | |
 | American poetry - 1993 - 412 pages
...人是荷馬、 維吉茁和彌茁頓。 29 Ode on Solitude 川e 沮nderPope 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... | |
 | Colin Nicholson - Business & Economics - 1994 - 252 pages
...youthfully confident and self-sustaining dispositions of his 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... | |
 | Ernst A. Schmidt - Authors and readers - 1996 - 500 pages
...120 A power must it maintain. 5. Alexander Pope (1700-1709) 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. 5 Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread. Whose focks supply him with attire, Whose trees in... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1996 - 876 pages
...CHAPTER IV. DESCRIPTIVE PIECES. SECTION I. The pleasures of retirement. JLlAPPY 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... | |
 | Tom Turner - Architecture - 1996 - 262 pages
...both a poetic theme and a garden theme. His Ode on solitude was Horatian: Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Pope did not see the formal gardens of his day as peaceful forest retreats. His Epistle to Lord Burlington... | |
 | Ismail Serageldin, David R. Steeds - Social Science - 1997 - 444 pages
...to the bucolic images of the "unspoiled" countryside. Alexander Pope wrote: Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground. Thus unseen unknown let me live Unlamented let me die, steal from the world and not a stone tell where... | |
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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 Summer yield him shade, In Winter... 
