 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
 | George Henry Stoddart - 1857 - 268 pages
...est ferocissima ? Tigris. Quod animal est fidëlissimum ? Canis. • Pope has a similar sentiment : " 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.... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 466 pages
...mother, and feeling the first delighted power of making verses, in scenery fitted to inspire them. 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 breadj... | |
 | L. Contanseau - 1860 - 232 pages
...indulge, Resembles ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly. YOUNG. 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,... | |
 | Horace - 1860 - 664 pages
...to increase. There seems to be an imitation of these lines in the opening of Pope's beautiful ode on Solitude : " Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound ; Content to breathe Ms native air, On his own ground." 4. Foenore. Focnus, from the obsolete feo ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 pages
...pleasure, Sacred Hymen ! these are thine ODF ON SOLITUDE. Written when the Author was about Iwfae Tear* CM HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own grrun Whose herds with i.iilk, whose fields with >rcad.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 pages
...long leisure, Days of ease, and nights of pleasure ; ODE ON SOLITUDE. WRITTEN AT TWELVE YEARS OF AUI!. 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,... | |
 | Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 pages
...conscience will make a man happy in all conditions : — "He knows not how to fear who dares to die." — 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,... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 pages
...the gale The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise. T. Gray cxvm THE QUIET LIFE Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Blest, who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days,... | |
 | John Laurie Blake - 1862 - 236 pages
...poverty, than others with the empire ol 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,... | |
 | Lord William Pitt Lennox - 1863 - 388 pages
...my relatives and friends. A little insight into country-house life may here not be out of place. " 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.... | |
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