 | Charles Mackay - 1885 - 462 pages
...its own peaceful continuation—the happy realisation of the juvenile dream of Alexander Pope:— " Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air On his own ground." Mr Washington was himself well-to-do in the world, and by the death of his brother... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1882 - 544 pages
...raptures move ? His heart now melt?, now leaps, now burns, With rev'rence, hope, and love. CHORUS. Hence guilty joys, distastes, surmises, Hence false...pleasure ; Sacred Hymen ! these are thine. ODE ON SOLITUDE.1 HAPPY the man who?e wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 pages
...deceits, disguises, Dangers, doubts, delays, surprizes; Fires that scorch, yet dare not shine : 40 Purest love's unwasting treasure, Constant faith,...nights of pleasure; Sacred Hymen ! these are thine. Lines on Curll So when Curll's Stomach the strong Drench o'ercame, (Infus'd in Vengeance of insulted... | |
 | 1909 - 1118 pages
...seat of the Punch cartoon the artist would have had to exhibit John Bull in a very different attitude. Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres...Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. But now this equable-minded person might feel a little anxious about these pleasant possessions when... | |
 | 1923 - 1004 pages
...mediocrity.' At the century's very beginning another poet, Alexander Pope, had written while still a boy : Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal...Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Somehow or another, the sentiment does not appear fashionable to-day, hardly respectable. It is difficult... | |
 | Elias Nason - 1877 - 332 pages
...FIRMA, an entrance to which may be found on the sunny side of most of our hills." FAMILY VISITOR. " Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres...Content to breathe his native air In his own ground." ALEXANDER POPE. ON the 2 1st day of February, 1788, the church held a solemn fast " to look up by Prayer... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
..."Animula, vagula, blandula." The "Ode on Solitude" has a quiet grace in the modulation of the lines: Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres...Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. . . . The Essay on Criticism, published in 1711, is Pope's first full-dress work. It is essentially... | |
 | Margaret Anne Doody, Professor of English Margaret Anne Doody - 1985 - 314 pages
...in a way that Horace's is not. In his youth, Pope once produced a more successful Horatian carmen: Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal...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 - 1988 - 266 pages
...a home can be a joyous and rewarding experience. CHAPTER TWO REAL ESTATE: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres...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 - 1992 - 1172 pages
...the chapel's silver bell you hear. That summons you to all the pride of pray'r: Ode on Solitude 107 (1. 1 —4) 108 Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world,... | |
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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. 
