 | Herodotus - 1812 - 468 pages
...never perhaps expressed with so much beauty as in th« following lines of our favourite Shakespeare : How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, 1 better brook than flourishing peopled towns. Here I can sit alone, unseen of any, And to the nightingale's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 470 pages
...Valentine, this I endure for thee! [Exeunt. SCENE IV. Another Part of the Forest. Enter VALENTINE. I nl. How use doth breed a habit in a man ! This shadowy...sit alone, unseen of any, And, to the nightingale's complaimng notes, Tune my distresses, and record my woes. O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, Leave... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 532 pages
...Valentine, this I endure for thee ! [Exeunt. SCENE IV. Another Part of the Forest. Enter VALENTINE. Val. How use doth breed a habit in a man ! This shadowy...sit alone, unseen of any, And, to the nightingale's complaimng notes, Tune my distresses, and record my woes. O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, Leave... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1848 - 494 pages
...Philomela sub umbra,' &c. GewgicIV., 5I 1—515. & ' The shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better love than flourishing peopled towns : Here can I sit alone,...complaining notes Tune my distresses, and record my woes.' Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act v., Scene 4. • ' Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816 - 428 pages
...disappointing the malice of Fortune, and for reconciling us to whatever course of life may be our lot : How use doth breed a habit in a man ! This shadowy...better brook than flourishing peopled towns. Here I can sit alone, unseen of any, And to the nightingale's complaining notes Tune my distresses, and... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...Banditti. Fear not ; he bears an honorable mind, And will not use a woman lawlessly. A Loser in Solitude. How use doth breed a habit in a man ! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, 1 better brook than flourishing peopled towns. Here can I sit alone, unseen of any, And to the nightingale's... | |
 | 1824 - 334 pages
...exquisitely wrought, and the general effect poetical and delicate. Valentine. — Henry Singleton. " How use doth breed a habit in a man ! This shadowy desert, unfrequented, I better brook than Nourishing peopled towns. Here can I sit alone, unseen of any, And to the nightingale's... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1819 - 424 pages
...disappointing the malice of Fortune, and for reconciling us to whatever course of life may be our lot : How use doth breed a habit in a man ! This shadowy desert, unfrequented wood?, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns. Here I can sit alone, unseen .of any, And to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 506 pages
...Valentine, this I endure for thee ! [Exeunt. SCENE IV. Another Part of the Forest. Enter VALENTINE. VAL. How use doth breed a habit in a man ! This shadowy...complaining notes, Tune my distresses, and record my woes 7. O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, Leave not the mansion so long tenantless ; Lest, growing... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 476 pages
...unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourish ing peopled towns: Here can I sit alone, unseen ol any, And, to the nightingale's complaining notes,...record* my woes. O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, I*eave not the mansion so long tenantless; Lest, growing ruinous, the bul.ding Tall, And leave no memory... | |
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How use doth breed a habit in a man ! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns : Here can I sit alone, unseen of any, And, to the nightingale's complaining notes, Tune my distresses, and record my woes. 
