| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...the choice of friends. Books should, not business, entertain the li^'ht, And sleep, as undisturb'd ut he, her fears to cease, Sent down the meek-cy'd...through the turning sphere, His* ready harbinger, W pleasure! yield, Horace might envy in his Sabine field. Thus would I double my life's fading space,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...but the choice of friends. Books should, not business, entertain the light, And sleep, as undisturb'd fortify Against the sun and th' enemy), Which they...Because their people's civiller Than those rude p \Vith Nature's hand, not Art's ; and pleasures yield, Horace might envy in his Sabine field. Thus would... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...Not on the number, but the choice of friends. x. My house a cottage, more - ??'-' •.!* /'in -i• Than palace, and should fitting be ••••' ;•...• •--; -•-.'•-' For all my use, no luxury. - .!•----; -- -•' ii't'tD My garden painted o'er i -- .a ', With Nature's hand, not Art's ; and... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...but the choice of friends. Books should, not business, entertain the light, And sleep, as undisturb'd ` a b E 8 H u V pleasure* yield, Horace might envy in his Sabine field. Thus would I double my life's fading space,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...but the choice of friends. Books should, not business, entertain the light, And sleep, as undisturb'd [ xf? f? E? Sabine field. Thus would I double my life's fading apace, For he that runs it well, twice runs bis... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...but the choice of friends. " Books should, as 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. • These unbought sports, this happy state, . I would not fear, nor wish my fate; But... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 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...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... | |
| Robert Tyas - 1851 - 250 pages
...the choice oi friends. O Books ihould, not Duslness, entertain the light, Anil sleep, as undisturbed as death, the night. My house a cottage more Than...and should fitting be For all my use, no luxury. My gnrden painted o'er With Nature's hand, not Art's ; and pleasures yield Horace might envy in his Sabine... | |
| 1851 - 770 pages
...No. 3. " This only grant me, that my means may He Too low for envy, for contempt too high. * * * * Thus would I double my life's fading space, For he that runs it well, /tctcO runs his race. — Covlty. THERE is a natural propensity in mankind to feel a greater degree... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 344 pages
...but the choice of friends. " Books should, as 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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