 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...  The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 45by Alexander Pope - 1893 - 505 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 334 pages
...Hers lift the soul to heaven. ODE ON SOLITUDE. WRITTEN WHEN THE AUTHOR WAS ABOUT TWELVE YEARS OLD. HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres...his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with rmlk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him... | |
 | American poetry - 1864 - 334 pages
...is past retrieving ; Experience is a dumb, dead thing ; The victory's in believing. THE QUIET LIFE. HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres...! Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter, fire. Blest,... | |
 | Life-lights - 1864 - 336 pages
...dead thing ; The victory 's in believing. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, 1819 — — American. THE QUIET LIFE. HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres...! Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter, fire. Blest,... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 344 pages
...Death! — Dread thing! if such thy visiting, how beautiful thou art! C. BOWLES 319 THE QUIET LIFE HAPPY the man, whose wish and care a few paternal...ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, whose flocks supply him with attire ; whose trees in summer yield him shade, i in winter, fire. Blest,... | |
 | Margaret Anne Doody, Professor of English Margaret Anne Doody - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 314 pages
...in a way that Horace's is not. In his youth, Pope once produced a more successful Horatian carmen: Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal...Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. ("Ode on Solitude," lines 1-4)" But this, as he proudly claimed, is a juvenile work. And no poet of... | |
 | Stephen M. Pollan, Mark Levine - Business & Economics - 1988 - 266 pages
...a home can be a joyous and rewarding experience. CHAPTER TWO REAL ESTATE: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres...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 - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...the chapel's silver bell you hear. That summons you to all the pride of pray'r: Ode on Solitude 107 (1. 1 —4) 108 Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world,... | |
 | American poetry - 1993 - 412 pages
...詩中提及的二位詩 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...ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire. Blest,... | |
 | Colin Nicholson - Business & Economics - 1994 - 252 pages
...suggested by comparing the youthfully confident and self-sustaining dispositions of his Ode on Solitude: Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal...ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire 0~8) with... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1996 - 876 pages
...bestows on kings. COTTON. CHAPTER IV. DESCRIPTIVE PIECES. SECTION I. The pleasures of retirement. JLlAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres...ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter, fire. Blest,... | |
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