 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1800 - 438 pages
...when I place thee in it, sighing, say, I knew at least one hare that had a friend. How various his employments, whom the world Calls idle; and who justly, in return, Esteems that busy world an idler too ! Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen, Delightful industry enjoy 'd at home, And nature in... | |
 | Health - 1802 - 302 pages
...when I place thee in it, sighing, say, 350 I knew at least one hare that had a friend. How various his employments, whom the world Calls idle ; and who justly, in return, Esteems that busy world an idler too ! Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen, 355 Delightful ineUistry enjoy'd at home, And nature... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1802 - 350 pages
...when I place thee in it, sighing, say, I knew at least one hare that had a friend. How various his employments, whom the world Calls idle ; and who justly, in return, Esteems that busy world an idler too ! Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen, Delightful industry enjoy'd at home, And nature in... | |
 | 1831 - 576 pages
...for man ; leisure, we fear, quite as little. Notwithstanding Fox's favourite lines, ' How various his employments whom the world Calls idle, and who justly,...the opposite experiment of the industrious classes how far a pleasure may be made of business. The misery of conjugating that verb ennuyer, through any... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1806 - 234 pages
...And, when I place thee in it, sighing say, I knew at least one hare that had a friend. How various his employments, whom the world Calls idle ; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too. Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen^ Delightful industry enjoyed at home, And nature in her... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1810 - 212 pages
...when I place thee in it, sighing, say, I knew at least one hare that had a friend. How various his employments, whom the world Calls idle ; and who justly, in return, Esteems that busy world an idler too ! Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen, Delightful industry enjoy'd at home, And nature in... | |
 | William Cowper - 1811 - 228 pages
...when I place thee in it, sighing, say, I knew at least one hare that had a friend. How various his employments, whom the world Calls idle ; and who justly, in return, Esteems that busy world an idler too! Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen, Delightful industry enjoy'd at home, And nature in her... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - Loneliness - 1813 - 478 pages
...preferred to those which promise compensatinn without lahour, and enjoyment without pain. How varinus his employments whom the world Calls idle, and who justly, in return, Esteems that husy world an idler too ! Friends, hooks, a garden, and perhaps his pen, Delightful industry ! enjoy-d... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1817 - 252 pages
...when I place thee in it, sighing say, I knew at least one hare that had a friend *. How various his employments, whom the world Calls idle ; and who justly in return Esteems that husy world an idler too. Friends, hooks, a garden, and perhaps his' pen, Delightful industry enjoyed... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - Loneliness - 1819 - 410 pages
...preferred to those whieh promise eompensation without labour, and enjoyment without pain. How various his employments whom the world Calls idle, and who justly, in return, Esteems that busy world an idler too ! Friends hooks a garden, and perhaps his pen, Delightful industry ! enjoy'd at home, And Nature, in... | |
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How various his employments, whom the world Calls idle ; and who justly, in return, Esteems that busy world an idler too... 
