 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...  Horace: Odes and Epodes - Page 453by Horace - 1898 - 487 pagesFull view - About this book
 | J. Cherpilloud - 1833 - 272 pages
...the shore, And now the woods, and now the billows roar. Dryden's translation of the Georgics. ODE ON SOLITUDE. 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,... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1833 - 286 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 acres bound; Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...fair hope, long leisure, Days of ease, and nights of pleasure ; Sacred Hymen ! these are thine. ODE ON SOLITUDE* 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,... | |
 | Joseph Edwards - 1835 - 240 pages
...So give me my Corydon's flute, And thus — let me break it in twain. EXERCISE V. Ode on Solitude. 1 Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. 2 Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1836 - 290 pages
...Heav'n bestows on kings. COTTON. CHAPTER IV. DESCRIPTIVE PIECES. SECTION I. The pleasures of retirement. 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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...fair hope, long leisure, Days of ease, and nights of pleasure ; Sacred Hymen ! these are thine. ODE ON illing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread,... | |
 | Harriette Campbell - 1839 - 896 pages
...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 bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herd* with milk ; whose fields with bread... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Harriette Campbell - 1839 - 312 pages
...LONDON: HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET. 1839. THE ONLY DAUGHTER. CHAPTER I. ' ' 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... | |
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