 | Harriette Campbell - 1839 - 312 pàgines
...LONDON: HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET. 1839. THE ONLY DAUGHTER. CHAPTER I. ' ' Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres...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... | |
 | Harriette Campbell - 1839 - 896 pàgines
...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...Content 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pàgines
...long leisure, Days of ease, and nights of pleasure ; Sacred Hymen ! these are thine. ODE ON SOLITUDE. wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1843 - 672 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1841 - 320 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1841 - 732 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Horace Hooker - 1841 - 240 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Israel Alger (Jun.) - 1846 - 180 pàgines
...reason wish for more : And if kind Heav'n this com'fort brings, 'Tis more than Heav'n bestows on kings. CHAPTER IV. DESCRIPTIVE PIE'CES. SECTION I. The pleas'ures...ground. 2. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with breaa, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire.... | |
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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... 
