 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 498 pages
...Where humble happiness endear'd each scene ! How often have I paus'd on every charm, The shclter'd cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topt the neighb'ring hill, The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whisp'ring... | |
 | Albert Picket - American literature - 1820 - 314 pages
...Where humble happiness endear'd each scene ! How often have I paus'd on every charm— The shelter'd cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church, that toppM the neighbouring hill; The hawthorn bush, witlf &e:fts beneath the shade, For talking .age and... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...delayed. Deer lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please. How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble...never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church, that topt the neighbouring hill ; The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade ;., For talking age and... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 314 pages
...green, Where humble happiness endear'd each scene! How often have I paus'd on ev'ry charm, The shelter'd cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topt the neighb'ring hill, The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whisp'ring... | |
 | 1821 - 732 pages
...steady and durable interest for the mind, than the homely, but familiar picture, of " The shelter 'd cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topp'd the nuighbouriiig hill" — which we have admired in the panorama of nature. It must ever be... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 428 pages
...Where humble happiness endear'd each scene ! How often have I paus'd on every charm, The shelter'd cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topt the neighbouring hill, The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade for talking age and whispering... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 762 pages
...Where humble happiness endear 'd each scene ! How often have I paused on every charm, — The shelter'd ight rely on his own testimony, topt the neighbouring hill, — The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Where humble happiness endear'd each scene ! How ofsen have 1 paus'd on every charm, The shelter'd on eisc. By thee adult'rous lust wae driv'n from men Among the bestial herds to range; b topt the neighb'ring hill, The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whisp'ring... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...preen, Where humble happiness endear'd each scene! How often have I paus'd on everj charm, The shelter'd cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topp'd the neighb'ring hill ; The hawthorn tush, with seats beneath the shade. Por talking age and... | |
 | Shropshire gazetteer - 1824 - 1028 pages
...Where humble happiness endear'd each scene ! " How often have I paus'd on ev'ry charm, " The shelter'd cot, the cultivated farm, " The never-failing brook, the busy mill ; " The decent church, that tops the neighb'riug hill ; " The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, " For talking age and... | |
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Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene! 
