 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 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...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. Blest,... | |
 | Harriette Campbell - 1839 - 312 pages
...LONDON: HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET. 1839. THE ONLY DAUGHTER. CHAPTER I. ' ' Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres...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." POPE.... | |
 | Harriette Campbell - 1839 - 896 pages
...VOL II. LONDON: HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER, GREAT MAKLBOROUGH STREET. THE ONLY DAUGHTER. CHAPTER I. * ' Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres...to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herd* with milk ; whose fields with bread ; Whose flocks supply him with atlirr ; Whose trees in summer... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1841 - 320 pages
...to love them ever since ; not the less for the knowledge I have since had of things far different. " Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres..." Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire. " Blest... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1841 - 732 pages
...to love them ever since ; not the less for the knowledge I have since had of things far different. " Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres..." Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire. " Blest... | |
 | Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Horace Hooker - English language - 1841 - 240 pages
...Con tent, a. happy in the enjoyment of what one has, without being uneasy for more. " Happy the mnn whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground." " Godliness with contentment is great gain." Con test. n. a striving to overcome by argument, evidence,... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1841 - 298 pages
...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...yield him shade, In winter fire. •' Blest who can unconoern'dly find Hours, days, and years slide soft away, In health of body, peace of mind, Quiet... | |
 | Alexander Reid - 1843 - 122 pages
...hour !" " For genuine happiness we need not roam ; 'Tis doubtless found with little and at home." " Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal...Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground." " If the poor are confined to a more narrow circle, yet within that circle lie most of those natural... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - History - 1846 - 292 pages
...poverty, than others with the empire of the world. LESSON TWENTY-FIFTH. The Pleasures of Retirement. Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal...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. Blessed... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Allen Fisk - 1846 - 180 pages
...utter forth a glorious voice ; For ever singing as they shine, " The hand that made us, is i)ivine." the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres...ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Bless'd, who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years slide... | |
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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... 
