 | William Cowper - 1835 - 448 pages
...book iv. We add a few short passages : How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude t But grant me still a friend in my retreat Whom I may whisper — solitude is sweet. Not to understand a treasure's worth Till time has stolen away the slighted good Is cause of half the... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1837 - 734 pages
...like the Frenchman, his remark was shrewd, How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude; But let me have a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper — Solitude is sweet. The Frenchman is, we believe, in all editions said to be La Bruyere ; but the author nf the sentiment was... | |
 | William Cowper - 1837 - 534 pages
...Frenchman*, his remark was shrewd—. How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude ! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper — solitude is sweet. Yet neither these delights, nor aught beside, That appetite can ask, or wealth provide, Can save us... | |
 | Elizabeth Ritchie - Biography - 1838 - 194 pages
...the Frenchman ; his remark was shrewd, How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude ! But grant me just a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper, Solitude is sweet.' " I often think of you, and love to remember that I too am present in your thoughts. Yes, we WILL love... | |
 | William Cowper - 1839 - 554 pages
...Frenchman', his remark was shrewd, — How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude ! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet. Yet neither these delights, nor aught beside That appetite can ask, or wealth provide, 1 Ih-uytre.... | |
 | John Newton Brown - American poetry - 1840 - 284 pages
...ravish, and inflame our hearts With love and trust perpetual as thy praise ! 1824. But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper— Solitude is sweet. Cowper. ELSEWHERE the mind in every age has roved, Than where the public cares their train disclose... | |
 | Richard Brown (architect.) - Architecture, Domestic - 1841 - 618 pages
...the Frenchman, his remark was shrewd, How sweet ! how passing sweet is solitude ! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper Solitude is sweet ; Yet neither these delights, nor aught beside That appetite can ask nor wealth provide, Can save us... | |
 | William Cowper - 1841 - 260 pages
...Frenchman,* his remark was shrewd — How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude ! 740 But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper — solitude is sweet. Yet neither these delights, nor aught beside, That appetite can ask, or wealth provide, Can save us... | |
 | George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1844 - 530 pages
...watering-places, nnd cany the metropolis with them. 1 like more elbow-room, and fewer incumbrnnccs. I like solitude, when I give myself up to it, for the sake...of a journey is liberty; perfect liberty, to think, frei, do just as one pleases. We go a journey chiefly to be free of all impediments nnd of all inconveniences... | |
 | William Cowper - 1847 - 556 pages
...Frenchman,* his remark was shrewd — How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude ! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper— solitude is sweet. Yet neither these delights, nor aught beside, That appetite can ask, or wealth provide, Can save us... | |
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I am not for criticising hedgerows and black cattle. I go out of town in order to forget the town and all that is in it. There are those who for this purpose go to wateringplaces, and carry the metropolis with them. 
