 | Edward Walford - London (England) - 1885 - 664 pages
...poetical delineation of Thomson, for in the society of a few choice spirits, he was here blessed with " An elegant sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural...quiet, friendship, books, Ease, and alternate labour." Mr. Cambridge must be well known to the readers of Bos well's "Life of Johnson" as a man of high literary... | |
 | Buffalo Historical Society - Buffalo (N.Y.) - 1904 - 604 pages
...polished manners — and that they had selected their habitations in this place, where they enjoyed "An elegant sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, Ease and alternate labor, useful life, Progressive virtue and approving Heaven." The elder of these gentlemen had received... | |
 | James Middleton Sutherland - 1887 - 248 pages
...poet, made me seek beneath that name, And that alone, my office upon earth.' •-•Ji CHAPTER III. ' An elegant sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural...useful life, Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven !' — Thomson. Wordsworth settles with his sister at Racedown Lodge, near Crewkerne, Dorsetshire (1795)... | |
 | Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club - Herefordshire (England) - 1890 - 460 pages
...everything.' As You Like It, Act II., Sc. i. AUGUST 20TH, 1883. CAYNHAM CAMP AND TITTEESTONE CLEE HILL. Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, Ease and...useful life, Progressive virtue and approving Heaven. SUCH are the fascinations attributed by the Ludlow Handbook "to the beauties of Nature lavished around... | |
 | James Thomson - Seasons - 1891 - 458 pages
...the glowing breast. 1155 Oh speak the joy ! ye whom the sudden tear Surprises often while you look around And nothing strikes your eye but sights of...pressing on the heart ; An elegant sufficiency, content, 1160 Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, Ease and alternate labour, useful life, Progressive-... | |
 | Joseph Krauskopf - Jewish sermons, American - 1891 - 350 pages
...generally included under contentment, or under the modest term of mediocrity. Thomson only asks for " An elegant sufficiency, content Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books. Ease and alternate labor, useful life Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven." The Seasons—Spring; Line ii58. Who... | |
 | James Middleton Sutherland - 1892 - 270 pages
...still A poet, made me seek beneath that name, And that alone, my office upon earth.' CHAPTER III. ' An elegant sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural...useful life, Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven !' — Thomson. Wordsworth settles with his sister at Racedown Lodge, near Crewkerne, Dorsetshire (1795)... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1892 - 658 pages
...Thomson, as he resided in the society of a select few who were never lacking in what the poet termed — An elegant sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural...quiet, friendship, books, Ease and alternate labour. Toward the close of his life Cambridge became acquainted with Boswell, who addressed him as "Fortunate... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - Curiosa - 1892 - 1114 pages
...things than most suppose. Line 246. What happiness does depend on is thus stated by various writers : An elegant sufficiency, content. Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books. Ease and alternate labor, useful life. Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven! THOMSON: Tke Seasons : Spring, \. 1158Mine... | |
 | Henry Solly - Great Britain - 1893 - 464 pages
...happy wedded love, beginning with But happy they ! the happiest of their kind ! and concluding thus : An elegant sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural...useful life, Progressive virtue and approving heaven. Mais nous avans change tout cela. My experience of those delightful " evenings at home," mentioned... | |
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An elegant sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, Ease and alternate labour, useful life, Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven. 
