 | John Hanmer Hanmer (1st Baron) - 1877 - 292 pages
...whom I quote from memory : — " Hail ! old patrician trees, so great and good ; Hail ! thou plebeian underwood, Where the poetic birds rejoice, And for their quiet nests and bounteous food Pay with a grateful voiee." O seminary, to keep such treasures as are not to be exposed... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 528 pages
...Discourses by Way of Essays.] ON SOLITUDE. Hail, old patrician trees, so great and good ! Hail ye plebeian underwood ! Where the poetic birds rejoice, And for...food, Pay with their grateful voice. Hail, the poor muse's richest manor seat ! Ye country houses and retreat, Which all the happy gods so love, That for... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...retir'st to endless rest. OF SOLITUDE. HAIL, old patrician trees, so great and good! Hail, ye plebeian underwood ! Where the poetic birds rejoice, And for...food Pay with their grateful voice. Hail, the poor Muse's richest manor-seat ! Ye country houses and retreat, Which all the happy gods so love, That for... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 536 pages
...Discourses by Way of Essays.] ON SOLITUDE. Hail, old patrician trees, so great and good ! Hail ye plebeian underwood! Where the poetic birds rejoice, And for...food, Pay with their grateful voice. Hail, the poor muse's richest manor seat! Ye country houses and retreat, Which all the happy gods so love, That for... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1880 - 474 pages
...exhibited in the subDined lines : — Hail, old patrician trees, so great and good ! Hail, ye plebeian underwood ! Where the poetic birds rejoice, And for...and plenteous food Pay with their grateful voice. * * * Here nature does a house for me erect — Nature ! the wisest architect, Who those fond artists... | |
 | 1881 - 578 pages
...so that the solitary life will grow inHall, the poor Muses' richest manor-seat t Ye country houses and retreat, Which all the happy gods so love, That for you oft they quit their bright and great digent, and be ready to starve, without them; Metropolis above. but if once wo be thoroughly engaged... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 744 pages
...mirroi of the Deity. OF SOLITUDE. 1 Hail, old patrician trees, so great and good ! Hail, ye plebeian underwood ! Where the poetic birds rejoice, And for...and plenteous food Pay with their grateful voice. 2 Hail the poor Muse's richest manor-seat ! Ye country houses and retreat, Which all the happy gods... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 pages
...inn. WILLIAM SHENSTONE. COn Solitnbe. HAIL, old patrician trees, so great and good ! Hail, ye plebeian underwood ! Where the poetic birds rejoice. And for...food, Pay with their grateful voice. Hail, the poor muse's richest manor-seat ! Ye country houses and retreat, Which all the happy gods so love, That for... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1882 - 524 pages
...Discovrses by Way of Essays.] ON SOLITUDE. Hail, old patrician trees, so great and good ! Hail ye plebeian underwood! Where the poetic birds rejoice, And for...food, Pay with their grateful voice. Hail, the poor muse's richest manor seat t Ye country houses and retreat, Which all the happy gods so love, That for... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1883 - 544 pages
...will never be surpassed. OF SOLITUDE. Hail, old patrician trees, so great and good ! Hail, ye plebeian underwood ! Where the poetic birds rejoice, And for...and plenteous food, Pay with their grateful voice. * * * » Here let me cureless and unthoughtful lying, Hear the soft winds above me flying ; With all... | |
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Hail, old patrician trees, so great and good! Hail, ye plebeian under-wood ! Where the poetic birds rejoice, And for their quiet nests and plenteous food Pay, with their grateful voice. Hail, the poor Muses... 
