 | John Frederick Schroeder - Biography & Autobiography - 1849 - 496 pages
...are thus bounded by a few acres : " Bless'd, who can unconcern'dly find Honrs, days, and years glide soft away, In health of body, peace of mind, Quiet by day,, " Sonnd sleep by night; study and ease Together mixed ; aweet recreation, And innocence, whieh most... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - Classical languages - 1850 - 364 pages
...him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire. Blest, who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years slide soft away, In health...mixt ; sweet recreation ; And innocence, which most doth please, Witli meditation. Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...with attire ; Whose tree* in summer yield him shade, In winter fire. Bless'd, who can unconcernedly find Hours, days, and years, slide soft away, In health of body, peace of mind, Quiet by day. Suund sleep by night : study and ease, Together mix'd ; sweet recreation, And innocence, which most... | |
 | English poetry - 1851 - 496 pages
...him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire. Blest who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years slide soft away, In health...day, Sound sleep by night : study and ease, Together mix'd : sweet recreation, And innocence, which most does please With meditation. Thus let me live,... | |
 | Rev.H. Musgrave Wilkins,M.A. - 1851 - 300 pages
...him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire. Blest, who can unconcernedly find Hours, days, and years, slide soft away, In health...mind, Quiet by day, Sound sleep by night ; study and Together mixt, sweet recreation : And innocence, which most does please With meditation. Then let me... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1852 - 460 pages
...him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire. Blest who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years slide soft away, In health...day, Sound sleep by night; study and ease, Together mix ' d ; sweet recreation ; And innocence, which most doth please With meditation. Thus let me^live,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1852 - 470 pages
...him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire. Blest who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years slide soft away, In health...day, Sound sleep by night ; study and ease, Together mix:d ; sweet recreation ; And innocence, which most doth please With meditation. Thus let me live,... | |
 | English literature - 1852 - 460 pages
...him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire. Blest who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years slide soft away, In health...day, Sound sleep by night ; study and ease, Together mix'd ; sweet recreation ; And innocence, which most doth please With meditation. Thus let me live,... | |
 | Willard C. George - Europe - 1852 - 266 pages
...him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire. Blest, who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days and years, slide soft away, In health...day ; Sound sleep by night ; study and ease Together mixed ; sweet recreation, And innocence, which most doth please, With meditation. And in this respect... | |
 | Valerie Rumbold - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 342 pages
...precocious origins, it concerns itself with an ideal that remained dear to him throughout his life: Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres...day, Sound sleep by night: study and ease Together mix'd; sweet recreation, And innocence, which most does please, With meditation. Thus let me live,... | |
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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 Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire. Whose trees in summer yield him shade. In winter fire.... 
