 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...  Poetry for children, selected by L. Aikin - Page 22by Poetry - 1804Full view - About this book
 | Robert Pashley - 1852 - 494 pages
...rightly ordered i commonwealth, when it absorbs and extinguishes The happy man, whose wish and caro A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground ! The statute, 25 Henry VIII. c. 13., prohibits the keeping of more than 2000 sheep by any one person.... | |
 | Stephen M. Pollan, Mark Levine - 1988 - 266 pages
...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 as apple pie. Nowhere else in the world is it as... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...you hear. That summons you to all the pride of pray'r: Ode on Solitude 107 Happy the man whose wish (1. 1 —4) 108 Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world,... | |
 | 1993 - 412 pages
...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, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in... | |
 | Colin Nicholson - 1994 - 252 pages
...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, Whose flocks supply him with attire; Whose trees in... | |
 | Ernst A. Schmidt - 1996 - 500 pages
...120 A power must it maintain. 5. Alexander Pope (1700-1709) 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. 5 Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread. Whose focks supply him with attire, Whose trees in... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1996 - 876 pages
...CHAPTER IV. DESCRIPTIVE PIECES. SECTION I. The pleasures of retirement. JLlAPPY 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... | |
 | Tom Turner - 1996 - 262 pages
...both a poetic theme and a garden theme. His Ode on solitude was Horatian: Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Pope did not see the formal gardens of his day as peaceful forest retreats. His Epistle to Lord Burlington... | |
 | Ismail Serageldin, David R. Steeds - 1997 - 444 pages
...to the bucolic images of the "unspoiled" countryside. Alexander Pope wrote: Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground. Thus unseen unknown let me live Unlamented let me die, steal from the world and not a stone tell where... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...perfectly like a Christian. 8933 'Ode on Solitude' (written when aged about 12) Happy the man, whose wish after service.' 10879 I am just going to pray for you at St Paul's, but with no very live 8934 'Ode on Solitude' (written when aged about 12) Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented... | |
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