 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
 | Willard C. George - 1852 - 266 pages
...hours of sober thought, when his heart is not inflamed by ambition or worldly pride, would not say; " Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound ; Content to breathe his native air, On his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread,... | |
 | Eli Bowen - 1852 - 456 pages
...life, the lines of young Pope are probably as applicable to them as any other people on the globe : 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,... | |
 | Carroll & Hutchinson (New York). - 1853 - 204 pages
...in her tears : Else might the ambitious nymph aspire To set, like him, heaven too on fire. POPE. 011 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,... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pages
...the pillow of thy sinking age. KIRKE WHITE. POPE. 333 0it WRITTEN WHEN HE WAS TWELVE YEARS OF AGE. 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,... | |
 | Frederic William Shelton - 1853 - 376 pages
...for the common weal, and that we might join in that aspiration of Pope's fresh and early muse : — ' Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, On his own ground.' One of the most melancholy sights which I ever... | |
 | Eli Bowen - 1854 - 526 pages
...life, the linos of young Pope are probably as applicable to them as any other people on the globe: 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,... | |
 | George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Jacobs Peterson, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Robert Taylor Conrad, Joseph Ripley Chandler, Bayard Taylor - 1855 - 632 pages
...the most natural and agreeable lyrio of one of the greatest poets of modern times, Alexander Pope : "Happy the man, whose wish and care, A few paternal acres bound," is a time-honored and well-known piece of poetry. Claudian's, which is more so, in respect of the firat,... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 1050 pages
...move and live, And feel that I am happier than I know.—MILTON. For Latin Lyrics: THE QUIET LIFE. Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...hated by Pope aa he had been by Dryden. He figures prominently in ' The Dunciad.' ODE ON SOLITUDE.1 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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pages
...bated by Pope as he had been by Dryden. He figures prominently in ' The Dunciad.' ODE ON SOLITUDE.1 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,... | |
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