 | David Garrick - English drama - 1798 - 318 pages
...we never can dread ; Our rtH;fs are too Lw.for so lofty a head ; Content and tie set . bearfulnets open our door, They smile with the simple, and feed with the poor, When love has posses'd us, that love we reveal : Like the flvclir that -we feed, art the passions wt... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1808 - 454 pages
...so guileless, so happy, aswef That giant, Ambition, we never can dread; Our roofs are too low for so lofty a head: Content and sweet cheerfulness open...door, They smile with the simple, and feed with the four. When love has possess d us, that love we reveal; Like thejlocks that we f ted, are the passions... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1819 - 394 pages
...when there's peace in the breast. That giant Ambition we never can dread, Our roofs are too low for so lofty a head ; Content and sweet Cheerfulness open...They smile with the simple, and feed with the poor. AVhen love has possess' d us, that love we reveal ; Like the flocks that we feed are the passions we... | |
 | George Daniel, John Cumberland - English drama - 1826 - 530 pages
...guileless, so happy, as we 1 That giant, Ambition, we never can dread ; Our roofs are too low for so lofty a head ; Content and sweet cheerfulness open...They smile with the simple, and feed with the poor When love has possess'd us, that love we reveal ; Like the flocks that we feed, are the passions we... | |
 | Richard Ryan - Poetry - 1826 - 336 pages
...guileless, and happy, as we ? That giant Ambition we never can dread ; Our roofs are too low for so lofty a head ; Content and sweet cheerfulness open...They smile with the simple, and feed with the poor. BOILEAU'S VILIiA AT AUTEUIL. ONE of the most celebrated villages in the environs of Paris is Auteuil,... | |
 | Richard Ryan - Poetry - 1826 - 334 pages
...guileless, and happy, as we ? That giant Ambition we never can dread ; Our roofs are too low for so lofty a head ; Content and sweet cheerfulness open...They smile with the simple, and feed with the poor. When love has possess'd us, that love we reveal ; Like the flocks that we feed, or the passions we... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...guileless, so happy as we ? " That giant, Ambition, we never can dread; Our roofs are too low for so lofty a head ; Content and sweet cheerfulness open...They smile with the simple and feed with the poor. " When love has possessed us, that love we reveal; Like the flocks that we feed, are the passions we... | |
 | Frederick Locker- Lampson - 1867 - 380 pages
...there's peace in the breast. That giant, Ambition, we never can dread ; Our roofs are too low for so lofty a head ; Content and sweet cheerfulness open...They smile with the simple, and feed with the poor. When love has possess'd us, that love we reveal : Like the flocks that we feed are the passions we... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1887 - 500 pages
...one of Perdita's songs : — ' That giant ambition we never can dread ; Our roofs are too low for so lofty a head ; Content and sweet cheerfulness open...They smile with the simple, and feed with the poor.' Act ii. sc. 1. ' Horace. Sat. i. 4. 34. • See ante, ii. 66. 1 Horace Walpole told Malone that "he... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - English poetry - 1889 - 406 pages
...there's peace in the breast. That giant, Ambition, we never can dread ; Our roofs are too low for so lofty a head ; Content and sweet cheerfulness open...They smile with the simple, and feed with the poor. So harmless and simple we sport, and we play, And leave to fine folks to deceive and betray. David... | |
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That giant, Ambition, we never can dread; Our roofs are too low for so lofty a head; Content and sweet cheerfulness open our door, They smile with the simple and feed with the poor. 
