 And a few friends, and many books, both true, Both wise, and both delightful too ! And since love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as...  The British Essayists - Page 178edited by - 1807Full view - About this book
 | Henry Southern - 1827 - 554 pages
...me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as guardian angels are, Only belov'd, and loving me \ Oh fields ! oh woods ! when, when shall I be made The happy tenant of your shade ? Here's the spring-head of Pleasure's flood; Where all the riches lie, that she Has coin'd and stamp'd... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 432 pages
...oaks. Chapman. Oh fountain*! when in you shall I Myself eased of peaceful thoughts espy J Oh acids! oh woods! when, when shall I be made The happy tenant of your shade ? Covtey. Can a man drink better from the fountain finely paved with marble, than wheu it swells over... | |
 | 1829 - 308 pages
...make unto themselves gods of earth ?t Is there * O rus, quaudo ego te aspiciam ! HORACE. O fields ! O woods ! when, when shall I be made The happy tenant of your shade 1 COWLET. t The times of old are on the wing. PERCIVAL. $ Our geographer, MORSE, asserts that idolatry... | |
 | Thomas Miller - Country life - 1837 - 466 pages
...trees." He exclaims, " Oh, fountains! when in you shall I Myself, eased of unpeaceful thoughts, espy 1 Oh, fields ! oh, woods ! when, when shall I be made The happy tenant of your shade I How happy here should I, And one dear she, live, and embracing die ! She, who is all the world, and... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...guardian-angels are, Only beloved, and loving me ! Oh, fountains ! when in you shall I Myself, eased of unpeaceful thoughts, espy ; Oh fields, oh woods...when shall I be made The happy tenant of your shade ? Here's the spring-head of Pleasure's flood ; Where all the riches lie, that she Has coin'd and stamp'd... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as guardian-angels are, Only beloved, and loving, me ! Oh fields, oh woods ! when, when shall I be made The happy tenant of your shade ? Here's the spring-head of Pleasure's flood ; Where all the riches lie, that she Has coin'd and stamp'd... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...belov'd, and loving me ! Oh, fountains ! when in you shall I Myself, eas'd of unpencefu! thoughts, espy Î y [Xsy* t v y n Tv-~ z | y y y ? COWLEY. Here's the spring-head of Pleasure'« flood ; Where all the riches lie, that she Has coin'd... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...are, Only belov'd, and loving me ! Oh, fountains ! when in you shall I Myself, eas'd of unpeacefu! oul ! I might by this have won a vole." A dreadful interval of spleen ! How shall we pass the tim ? COWLEY. Here's the spring-head of Pleasure's flood ; Where all the riches lie, that she Has coin'd... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...guardian-angels are, Only belov'd, and loving me ! . Oh, fountains ! when in you shall I Myself, cas'd ry herb 541 Of knot-grass dew-besprent, and were in fold, I sat me down to watch COWLEY. Here's the spring-head of Pleasure's flood ; Where all the riches lie, that she Has coin'd... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as guardian angels are, Only bclov'd, and loving me ! 'd to lie, In bonds retain'd his birthright liberty,...descendant of a patriot line ! Who, while thou shar'st t Here's the spring-head of Pleasure's flood, Where all the riches lie, that she Has coin'd and stamp'd... | |
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