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Introduction to the English Reader: Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and ... - Page 134
by Lindley Murray - 1831 - 150 pages
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The English Reading Book in Verse: Adapted to Domestic and to School Education

William Jillard Hort - English literature - 1822 - 234 pages
...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...
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A Dictionary of Spanish Proverbs

Proverbs, Spanish - 1823 - 406 pages
...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...
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The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 8

Alexander Pope - 1824 - 634 pages
...perceive how long I have 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...
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An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1824 - 84 pages
...earth, sea, skiSs ! One chorus let all being raise ! All nature's incense rise ! ODE ON SOLITUDE.* 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...
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Heraldic Anomalies, Volume 2

Edward Nares - Precedence - 1824 - 424 pages
...be beneficial to the poorer neighbours around him. Nothing else I think can excuse our Game Laws. " 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...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...I sung the sylvan straitw. ODE ON SOLITUDE. Written »hen the Author кas about Taxlve YearsaUHappy its kind concealment to a few, Their food its insects,...and its moss their nests : Others apart, far in the Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in...
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An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, to which ...

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1824 - 80 pages
...altar, earth, sea, skies ! One chorus let all being raise ! All nature's incense rise ! ODE ON SOLITUDE* HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air. In liis own ground. Whoso herds with milk, whose fiekb with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire...
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Introduction to the English Reader: Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1824 - 170 pages
...kings, ccrrrox. CHAPTER IV. •«^ DESCRIPTIVE PIECES. * SECTION I. . The flltasiires of retirement* ! . HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound ; Content t« breath his native air, In his own ground. 2. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread.. Whose...
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The Poetical Works of Alex. Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life

Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...long leisure ; Days of ease, and nights of pleasure, Sacred Hymen ! these are thine. ODE ON SOLITUDE. HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breath his native air In his own ground. U hose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose nocks...
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Introduction to the English Reader, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 164 pages
...brings, i *Tis more than Heav'n bestows on kings. COTTON. k .-.! CHAPTER IV. i >:'•.' : ' : ;-•-.-. DESCRIPTIVE PIECES. SECTION I. The pleasures of retirement....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...
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