 | Harriette Campbell - 1839 - 312 pages
...VOL II. LONDON: HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET. 1839. THE ONLY DAUGHTER. CHAPTER I. ' ' Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal...trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire." POPE. AT five o'clock on a dark December evening the family equipage of Monzievar took VOL,. II. B... | |
 | Harriette Campbell - 1839 - 896 pages
...VOLUMES. VOL II. LONDON: HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER, GREAT MAKLBOROUGH STREET. THE ONLY DAUGHTER. CHAPTER I. * ' Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal...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... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1843 - 672 pages
...SHOOTING — TWO ANECDOTES FOUNDED ON FACT — HARK BACK TO THE REIQNS OF THE SEVENTH AND EIGHTH HENRYS. " Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air On his own ground.'' So wrote Pope at the age of twelve years. Thompson, too, talks of the happiness... | |
 | 1839 - 320 pages
...Tenante the plough ;" .nd well too might Pope, when a mere boy, say, " Happy the man, whose highest car« A few paternal acres bound ; Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. " Whose flocks with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose herds supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...word, his saving power remains ; Thy realm for ever lasts, thy own Messiah reigns !^ ODE ON SOLITUDE. HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal...Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire. Bless'd who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years slide soft away, In health of body, peace... | |
 | 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...summer yield him shade, In winter fire. " Blest who can nnconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years slide soft away, In health of body, peace of mind, Quiet... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 850 pages
...This womanish attire of godly peace, And cry, lie there Lord Cardinal of Guise. Dryilen. D. of Guise. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose...Whose trees in summer yield him shade In winter fire. Pope. Ode on Solitude. Behind these mountains arise, in order, Moscdale-fell — Carrie — mid Cindbeck... | |
 | 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...Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire. Blessed who can unconcernedly find Hours, days, and years, slide soft away, In health of body, peace... | |
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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,... 
