 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
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 334 pages
...Hers lift the soul to heaven. ODE ON SOLITUDE. WRITTEN WHEN THE AUTHOR WAS ABOUT TWELVE YEARS OLD. 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 rmlk, whose fields with bread,... | |
 | 1864 - 334 pages
...is past retrieving ; Experience is a dumb, dead thing ; The victory's in believing. 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 ! Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread,... | |
 | Life-lights - 1864 - 336 pages
...dead thing ; The victory 's in believing. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, 1819 — — American. 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 ! Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread,... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 344 pages
...Death! — Dread thing! if such thy visiting, how beautiful thou art! C. BOWLES 319 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. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread,... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1865 - 226 pages
...delight at all he sees ; his step is firm and elastic ; and the glow of health is on his cheek. 6. Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres" bound ; Content to breathe his native air* In his own ground. 7. Whose herds with milk', whose fields' with... | |
 | Horace, John Larkin Lincoln - 1866 - 718 pages
...to increase. There seems to bo 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 his native air, On his own ground." 4. Foenore. Foenus, from the obsolete feo... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 pages
...POPE was a precocious genius ; for when only in his thirteenth year, he wrote these pleasing lines 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,... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1866 - 412 pages
...CERN' ED LY, without care. ODE OK SOLITUDE, farm. Written when the author was twelve years of age. 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,... | |
 | 1866 - 328 pages
...Hers lift the soul to heaven. ODE ON SOLITUDE. WRITTEN WHEN THE AUTHOR WAS ABOUT TWELVE YEARS OLD. 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 - 1867 - 626 pages
...corporis, Quse mine abibis in loca, Pallidula, rigida, nudula? Nee, ut soles, dabis jocos.' 437 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,... | |
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