| Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...the gale The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise. T. Gray cxvm THE QUIET LIFE Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal...Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Blest, who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years, slide soft away In health of body, peace... | |
| John Laurie Blake - 1862 - 236 pages
...poverty, than others with the empire ol 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... | |
| Robert Potts - 1863 - 482 pages
...move and live, And feel that I am happier than I know. — MILTON. For Latin Lyrics : THE QUIET LIFE. 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,... | |
| English poetry - 1863 - 438 pages
...gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise. T. Gray ex vi n THE QUIET LIFE 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,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1863 - 334 pages
...Hers lift the soul to heaven. ODE ON SOLITUDE. WRITTEN WHEN THE AUTHOR WAS ABOUT TWELVE YEARS OLD. HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres...his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with rmlk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him... | |
| Life-lights - 1864 - 336 pages
...dead thing ; The victory 's in believing. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, 1819 — — American. THE QUIET LIFE. 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,... | |
| Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 344 pages
...Death! — Dread thing! if such thy visiting, how beautiful thou art! C. BOWLES 319 THE QUIET LIFE 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, i in winter, fire. Blest,... | |
| American poetry - 1864 - 334 pages
...is past retrieving ; Experience is a dumb, dead thing ; The victory's in believing. THE QUIET LIFE. 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,... | |
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