 | Lord William Pitt Lennox - 1880 - 280 pages
...guest, Spent in sudden storms of lust, A vapour fed from wild desire, A wandering self-consnming fire. Hence guilty joys, distastes, surmises, Hence false...surprises, Fires that scorch, yet dare not shine. Contrast unhallowed love with the pure as thus described by another poet : — " Charm of love, who... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 pages
...Shetland Fairy Tale. Se. 4. There is no place like home. e. J. HOWARD PAYNE — Sony. Home. Sweet Home. Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal...Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. /. РОГЕ— Ode on Solitude. St. 1. Fireside happiness to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the... | |
 | 1845 - 778 pages
...imitation of it is known to the ordinary reader ; we mean Pone's ode to "Solitude," commencing, — " Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air On his own ground." It was impossible, indeed, that there should not be a general similarity in the... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 pages
...he passed the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise. 4285 Parnell : Hermit. Line 5. Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal...Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. 4286 Pope : Ode on Solitude. An elegant sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural quiet, friendship,... | |
 | Frederick Bryon Norman - 1883 - 162 pages
...the substantive it qualifies. Thus we can never say nthe content man" but nthe man is content". Ex.: Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In hia own ground. A person is satisfied (F. satisfait, satisfied — L. satisfacio, to satisfy) when... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1884 - 996 pages
...generous efforts of my hosts provided for me. a stranger and an alien. I have told my Virginia story. APPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound....Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. ii ' -ч ГЛЕ; ' "Wt :..jj ',i;'i ,'|few •>-Lifi-'- '"^1 /' '''•-•"! ':-c-:'' ^sail-Viii^î... | |
 | Horace, John Larkin Lincoln - 1884 - 638 pages
...ambitious to increase. There seems to be an imitation of these lines in the opening of Pope's beautiful ode on Solitude : " Happy the man, whose wish and...paternal acres bound ; Content to breathe his native air, On his own ground." 4. Foenore. Focnus, from the obsolete feo; whatismade by money, interest ; here... | |
 | Stray thoughts, E L - 1885 - 118 pages
...of happiness ; they may take off from glory where they do not entail infamy. — Henry Melville. 14. HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres...Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. — C. Pope. 18. IT is true that the valley of shadows lies between us and the Home on High ; but shadows... | |
 | 1885 - 668 pages
...Life's idle business at one gasp be o'er, The Muse forgot, and thou belov'd no more! THE QUIET LIFE. HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal...Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whoseherds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire; \Vhose trees in... | |
 | Maria Henrietta De la Cherois-Crommelin - 1885 - 392 pages
...me I'm as happy as I am." His older friend smiled kindly on the honest young fellow, and quoted— " Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres...Content to breathe his native air In his own ground." That evening, and the following ones, what merry times we had with Jack and his friend at casino, commerce,... | |
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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. 
