...raptures move ! His heart now melts, now leaps, now burns, With reverence, hope, and loye.. • Chorus. Hence, guilty joys, distastes, surmises ; Hence, false...Sacred Hymen ! these, are thine.. ODE ON SOLITUDE. Written when the Author was about twelve Years < HAPPY the man whoae wish and care A few paternal acres...

...now melts, now leaps, now hums, With reverence, hope, and love. Chana. Hence, guilty joys, dislates, y2jһ u ( "iKtniii faith, fair hope, long leisure ; Days of ease, and nights of pleasure, i-acred Hymen ! these...

...these are dear consolations to the weary laborer, and enough to repay for the hard condition of life. ' Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, On his own ground.' Eight years had passed since the marriage of Robert Kusbow, and five since his...

...VOL II. LONDON: HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER, GREAT MAKLBOROUGH STREET. THE ONLY DAUGHTER. CHAPTER I. * ' Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres...to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herd* with milk ; whose fields with bread ; Whose flocks supply him with atlirr ; Whose trees in summer...

...SHOOTING — TWO ANECDOTES FOUNDED ON FACT — HARK BACK TO THE REIQNS OF THE SEVENTH AND EIGHTH HENRYS. " Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air On his own ground.'' So wrote Pope at the age of twelve years. Thompson, too, talks of the happiness...

...Con tent, a. happy in the enjoyment of what one has, without being uneasy for more. " Happy the mnn whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground." " Godliness with contentment is great gain." Con test. n. a striving to overcome by argument, evidence,...

...hour !" " For genuine happiness we need not roam ; 'Tis doubtless found with little and at home." " Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal...Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground." " If the poor are confined to a more narrow circle, yet within that circle lie most of those natural...

...contentious person. Con tent, a. happy in the enjoyment of what one has, without being uneasy for more. " Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres...Content to breathe his native air In his own ground." " Godliness with contentment is great gain." Con test, n. a striving to overcome by argument, evidence,...

...Heav'n bestows on kings. CHAPTER IV. DESCRIPTIVE PIE'CES. SECTION I. The pleas'ures 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 breaa, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees...

...raptures move ! His heart now melts, now leaps, now burns, 35 With reverence, hope, and love. 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...