| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1814 - 234 pages
...bestows on kings. COTTOK. CHAPTER IV. .. DESCRIPTIVE PIECES. SECTION L THE PLEASURES OF RETIREMENT. HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal...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... | |
| English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...reigns ! ODE ON SOLITUDE. BY ALEXANDER POPE, ESQ. Written when the Author ivas about twelve years n>ld.. HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres...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... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1816 - 236 pages
...conscience crowns tho whole : Add but a friend to all this store, You can't in reason wish for more : JTis more than Heav'n bestows on kings. COTTON And if kind...own ground. 2. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter... | |
| Children's poetry, English - 1820 - 190 pages
...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 A few paternal acres...Content to breathe his native air In his own ground ! Whoseherdewith milk, whose fields withbread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1821 - 86 pages
...lasts, thy own Messiah reigns ! ODE ON SOLITUDE. WRITTJN1 BY OUR AUTHOR, AT ABOUT TWELVE VKAKS OH!. HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal...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... | |
| John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...ode seems to comprehend every thing necessary for man on this side the tomb ; — ODE TO SOLITUDE. Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal...Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground Whose herds with milk, whose field with bread. Whose flocks supply him with attire. Whose trees in... | |
| Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 426 pages
...alarm'd ; that is, alarmed at the chastity of Lady Elizabeth, which lessened his power. ODE ON SOLITUDE4. HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal...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... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 276 pages
...Her's lift the soul to Heaven. ODE ON SOLITUDE. WRITTEN WHEN THE AUTHOR WAS ABOUT TWELVE YEARS OLD. HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres...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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 392 pages
...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. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in... | |
| Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 396 pages
...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,... | |
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