...this comfort brings, CHAPTER IV. DESCRIPTIVE PIECES. SECTION I. -*" The pleasures of retirement. 1. HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal...Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. 2. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees...

...Till vernal gales should gently play To waft us on our homeward way. ORIGINAL. 22 Ode on Solitude. ODE ON SOLITUDE. HAPPY the man whose wish and care...Content to breathe his native air In his own ground ! Whoseherdewith milk, whose fields withbread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in...

...home-felt raptures move! His heart now melts, now leaps, now burns, With reverence, hope, and love. CHORUS. Hence, guilty joys, distastes, surmises, Hence, false...nights of pleasure; Sacred Hymen ! these are thine. PROLOGUE TO MR. ADDISON'S CATO. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and...

...may perceive how long I continued in my passion for a rural life, and in the same employments of it. Happy the man", whose wish and care A few paternal...Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. 3 The contemplating, reflecting, philosophic turn of mind, for which our Author was afterward so eminent,...

...raptures move ? His heart now melts, now leaps, now burns, With rev'rence, hope, and love. 36 CHORUS. Hence, guilty joys, distastes, surmises, Hence, false...surprises ; Fires that scorch, yet dare not shine : 40 Purest love's unwasting treasure, Constant faith, fair hope, long leisure, Days of ease, and nights...

...raptures move ? His heart now melts, now leaps, now burns, With rev'rence, hope, and love. 36 CHORUS. Hence, guilty joys, distastes, surmises, Hence, false...surprises ; Fires that scorch, yet dare not shine : 40 Purest love's unwasting treasure, Constant faith, fair hope, long leisure, Days of ease, and nights...

...long I continued in my passion for a rural life, and in the same employments of it. Happy the man2, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. * The contemplating, reflecting, philosophic turn of mind, for which our Author was afterward so eminent,...

...mutual interest guard ; 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...

...house and land, the produce 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...

...occurrant oscula nati Praeripere, et tacita pectus dulcedine tangunt." Lib. iii. 909. Warton. CHORUS. Hence guilty joys, distastes, surmises, Hence false...nights of pleasure, Sacred Hymen! these are thine.* NOTES. * These two choruses are enough to shew us his great talents for this species of poetry, and...