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" 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 453
by Horace - 1898 - 487 pages
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Lyra Elegantiarum: A Collection of Some of the Best Specimens of Vers de ...

Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1867 - 432 pages
...on : and beg to have A quiet passage to a welcome grave. Izaak Walton. LXXXIIf. THE CONTENTED MAN. 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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A household book of English poetry, selected with notes by R.C. Trench

Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...hence unto that hill, 40 Where I shall need no glass. Henry Vanglian. PART THE THIRD. cxxxv 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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The book of poetry for schools and families [ed.] by W. Davis

William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 pages
...Rape of the Lock ; Essay on Man ; Moral Essays ; and Translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. 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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Historical sketches of the reign of George second, Volume 1

Margaret Oliphant Oliphant - 1869 - 450 pages
...ode is more pleasing than the blank, harmonious waste of the Pastorals or the other early poems. " Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground," says the philosopher of twelve, in a not unusual...
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The Daring Muse: Augustan Poetry Reconsidered

Margaret Anne Doody, Professor of English Margaret Anne Doody - 1985 - 314 pages
...in a way that Horace's is not. In his youth, Pope once produced a more successful Horatian carmen: Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. ("Ode on Solitude," lines 1-4)" But this, as...
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The Star

272 pages
...complain of barefaced piracy and imitation. Pray did GK If. ever read Pope's verses, commencing — " Happy the man whose wish and care, a few paternal acres bound, Ste." How paltry it is for persons who possess no brains of their own, to endeavour to profit by the...
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Field Guide to Home Buying in America

Stephen M. Pollan, Mark Levine - 1988 - 266 pages
...a home can be a joyous and rewarding experience. CHAPTER TWO REAL ESTATE: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground, ALEXANDER POPE Home ownership is truly as American...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...the chapel's silver bell you hear. That summons you to all the pride of pray'r: Ode on Solitude 107 Content to breathe his native air In his own ground: (1. 1 —4) 108 Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;...
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英美名詩一百首

1993 - 412 pages
...詩中提及的二位詩 人是荷馬、 維吉茁和彌茁頓。 29 Ode on Solitude 川e 沮nderPope 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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Writing and the Rise of Finance: Capital Satires of the Early Eighteenth Century

Colin Nicholson - 1994 - 252 pages
...matured is suggested by comparing the youthfully confident and self-sustaining dispositions of his 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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