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Lyra Elegantiarum: A Collection of Some of the Best Specimens of Vers de ... - Page 45
edited by - 1867 - 345 pages
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 7

Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 396 pages
...long I continued in my passion for a rural life, and in the same employments of it. Happy the man2, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. * The contemplating, reflecting, philosophic turn of mind, for which our Author was afterward so eminent,...
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The English Reading Book in Verse: Adapted to Domestic and to School Education

William Jillard Hort - English literature - 1822 - 234 pages
...mutual interest guard ; Mine be the gift of fruit and shade, Your songs be my reward. SOLITUDE. Pope. HAPPY the man whose wish and care, A few paternal acres bound ; Content to breathe his native air, On his own ground. Whose herds with milk ; whose fields with bread ; Whose flock's supply him with...
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A Dictionary of Spanish Proverbs

Proverbs, Spanish - 1823 - 406 pages
...house and land, the produce of which yields him the necessaries of life, feels not the want of money. " Happy the man whose wish and care " A few paternal...acres bound ; " Content to breathe his native air, " On his own ground." POPE. Bmn principio la, mitad es hecho. — " A good beginning is half the work...
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An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1824 - 84 pages
...earth, sea, skiSs ! One chorus let all being raise ! All nature's incense rise ! ODE ON SOLITUDE.* HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres...trees in summer yield him shade, In winter, fire. Bless'd, who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years slide soft away, In health of body, peace...
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An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, to which ...

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1824 - 80 pages
...altar, earth, sea, skies ! One chorus let all being raise ! All nature's incense rise ! ODE ON SOLITUDE* HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air. In liis own ground. Whoso herds with milk, whose fiekb with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire...
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Introduction to the English Reader: Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1824 - 170 pages
...kings, ccrrrox. CHAPTER IV. •«^ DESCRIPTIVE PIECES. * SECTION I. . The flltasiires of retirement* ! . HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound ; Content t« breath his native air, In his own ground. 2. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread.. Whose...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...when the Author Teas about Taehe Years olil. HAPPY the man, whose wish and eare A few paternal aeres hape, ereet and tall, Godlike ereet, with native honour...naked majesty, seem'd lords of all : " And worthy floeks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire. Blest who ean...
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The Poetical Works of Alex. Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life

Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...long leisure ; Days of ease, and nights of pleasure, Sacred Hymen ! these are thine. ODE ON SOLITUDE. HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breath his native air In his own ground. U hose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose nocks...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope ...: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...twelve Years old. HApFY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres hound, Coutent to hreathe hread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade. In winter fire....
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed a Life ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1828 - 222 pages
...Hers lift the soul to Heav'n. ODE ON SOLITUDE. Written when the Author was about twelve years old. HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Contentlo breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whcse fields with brc Whose...
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