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" When I came into the country, and being seated among silent trees, and meads and hills, had all my time in mine own hands, I resolved to spend it all, whatever it cost me, in search of happiness, and to satiate that burning thirst which Nature had enkindled... "
Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries - Page 328
by Rufus Matthew Jones - 1914 - 362 pages
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The Journal of the Friends' Historical Society, Volumes 19-20

Friends' Historical Society - 1922 - 328 pages
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, B.D., 1636?-1674: Now First Published ...

Thomas Traherne - 1903 - 274 pages
...have only one result : When I came into the country, and being seated among silent trees and woods and hills, had all my time in mine own hands, I resolved...cost me, in the search of Happiness, and to satiate the burning thirst which Nature had enkindled in me from my youth. In which I was so resolute that...
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From a Cornish Window

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1906 - 412 pages
...came into the country and, being seated among silent trees and woods and hills, had all my time in my own hands, I resolved to spend it all, whatever it...cost me, in the search of Happiness, and to satiate the burning thirst which Nature had enkindled in me from my youth ; in which I was so resolute that...
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Traherne: (an Essay)

Gladys E. Willett - 1919 - 84 pages
...when he left the University he made his great decision not to rest until he had found "Felicity." " When I came into the country, and, being seated among...silent trees and meads and hills, had all my time in my own hands, I resolved to spend it all, whatever it cost me, in the search of happiness, and to satiate...
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Poetry Review, Volume 16

Stephen Phillips, Galloway Kyle - 1925 - 490 pages
...spiritual music, forsook worldly prosperity for higher aspirations. But he will give his own account : When I came into the country, and being seated among silent trees, and meads and hills, had all the time in my own hands, I resolved to spend it all, whatever it cost me, in the search of happiness,...
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From a Cornish Window

Arthur Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1928 - 302 pages
...and the life of the Spirit, between the chase of fleeting phenomena and rest upon the soul's centre: When I came into the country and, being seated among silent trees and woods and hills, had all my time in my own hands, I resolved to spend it all, whatever it cost me,...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne: Faithfuly Reprinted from the Author's ...

Thomas Traherne - 1932 - 416 pages
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The Metaphysical Poets: Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, Traherne

James Blair Leishman - 1934 - 264 pages
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Centuries of Meditations

Thomas Traherne, Bertram Dobell - 1934 - 374 pages
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Felicities of Thomas Traherne

Thomas Traherne - 1934 - 156 pages
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