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" Thus would I double my life's fading space, For he that runs it well, twice runs his race. And in this true delight, These unbought sports... "
The Works of Abraham Cowley - Page 227
by Abraham Cowley - 1806
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The Works of the British Poets, Selected and Chronologically Arranged ...

1852 - 874 pages
...the choice, of friends. Books should, not business, entertain the light, And sleep, as undisturb'd Sabrina descends, and the Lady rises out of Iier seat...brimmed waves for this Their full tribute never mi yirM Horace might envy in his Sabine field. Thus would I double my life's fading space ; For he, that...
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Recollections of a Literary Life, Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 588 pages
...sleep as undisturbed as death, the night. Jfy house, a cottage more Than palace ; and should fitting bo For all my use, no luxury. My garden painted o'er...art's ; and pleasures yield, Horace might envy in his Sabine field. " Thus would I double my life's fading space, For he that runs it well, twice runs his...
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The Poetry of the Sentiments

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1853 - 334 pages
...but the choice, of friends. Books should, not business, entertain the light, And sleep as undisturbed as death, the night. My house a cottage more Than...Art's ; and pleasures yield Horace might envy in his Sabine field. Thus would I double my life's fading space ; For he, that runs it well, twice runs his...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pages
...but the choice of friends. Books should, not business, entertain the light, And sleep, as undisturb'd as death, the night. My house a cottage, more Than palace, and should fitling be For all my use, no luxury. My garden painted o'er With Nature's hand, not Art's ; and pleasures...
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Gleanings from the Poets: For Home and School

1854 - 456 pages
...the choice, of friends. Books should, not business, entertain the light, And sleep, as undisturbed as death, the night. My house a cottage more Than...For all my use, no luxury. My garden painted o'er Thus would I double my life's fading space ; For he that runs it well twice runs his race. And in this...
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Gift of Sentiment: A Souvenir for 1854

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1854 - 322 pages
...but the choice, of friends. Books should, not business, entertain the light, And sleep as undisturbed as death, the night. ', ' My house a cottage more Than palace ; and should fitting be ' " i For all my use, no luxury. My garden painted o'er With Nature's hand, not Art's; and pleasures...
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A Compendium of English Literature, Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 pages
...but the choice of friends. Books should, not business, entertain the light, And sleep, as undisturb'd as death, the night. My house a cottage, more Than palace, and should fitting bo For all my use, no luxury. My garden painted o'er With Nature's hand, not art's ; and pleasures...
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Gleanings from the Poets: For Home and School

Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 pages
...the choice, of friends. Books should, not business, entertain the light, And sleep, as undisturbed as death, the night. My house a cottage more Than...For all my use, no luxury. My garden painted o'er Thus would I double my life's fading space ; For he that runs it well twice runs his race. And in this...
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Gleanings from the Poets, for Home and School

1855 - 458 pages
...the choice, of friends. Books should, not business, entertain the light, And sleep, as undisturbed as death, the night. My house a cottage more Than...For all my use, no luxury. My garden painted o'er Thus would I double my life's fading space ; For he that runs it well twice runs his race. And in this...
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Rambles round Nottingham

1856 - 400 pages
...panted for repose ? — " Books should, not business, entertain the light, And sleep as undisturbed as death, the night. My house a cottage, more Than...art's ; and pleasures yield Horace might envy in his Sabine field." Charles James Wright, Esq., banker, Nottingham, son of the distinguished translator...
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