 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1841 - Страниц: 564
...life, and Cowper completes the charming triumvirate. The latter'S love for the country was absolute. I never framed a wish, or formed a plan, That flattered me with hopes of earthly bliss, But there I laid the scene. His description of the pursuits of horticulture, winter landscapes, and rustic... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1841 - Страниц: 456
...life, and Cowper completes the charming triumvirate. The latter's love for the country was absolute. I never framed a wish, or formed a plan, That flattered me with hopes of earthly bliw, Bat there I laid the scene. His description of the pursuits of horticulture, winter landscapes,... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1846 - Страниц: 350
...life, and Cowper completes the charming triumvirate. The latter's love of the country was absolute. I never framed a wish, or formed a plan, That flattered me with hopes of earthly bliss, But there I laid the scene. His description of the pursuits of horticulture, winter landscapes, and rustic... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1847 - Страниц: 844
...orders."* " The neighbourhood of a monastery wins me still," would many suy in the language of the poet, "I never framed a wish, or formed a plan, that flattered me with hopes of earthly bliss, but there I laid the scene." Thus useful to all, we may remark, in tint-, that monasteries conferred benefits... | |
 | Wellbourn - 1849 - Страниц: 160
...loved a rural life, and who with the poet Cowper could well have said, " The country wins me still. I never framed a wish or formed a plan, That flattered me with hopes of earthly bliss, But there I laid the scene." Mr. Hope took great pains to make himself acquainted with all subjects connected... | |
 | William Cowper - 1850 - Страниц: 516
...I more regret, Infected with the manners and the modes It knew not once, the country wins me still. I never framed a wish, or formed a plan, That flattered me with hopes of earthly bliss, But there I laid the scene. There early strayed My fancy, ere yet liberty of choice Had found me, or the... | |
 | Alicia Moore - 1854 - Страниц: 414
...man of his grave character and deportment could ever seriously have regarded her with attachment. " I never framed a wish, or formed a plan That flattered me with hopes of earthly bliss, Eut thou wert there." " SURELY, Rosalind, you will accompany me to Mrs. Berkely's to-day?" said Felicia... | |
 | 1855 - Страниц: 712
...solitude and verse." His own ardent attachment to the country finds expression in the exclamation — " I never framed a wish, or formed a plan That flattered me with hopes of earthly bliss, But there I laid the scene." And a greater man than either Cowley or Cowper has left on record one of the... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - Страниц: 574
...still more regret, Infected with the manners and the modes It knew not once, the country wins me still. ng, full of rumination sod, Laments the weakness of these latter times. WOMAN'S SPHERE ; TH there I laid the scene. There early strayed My fancy, ere yet liberty of choice Had found me, or the... | |
 | Daniel Ricketson - 1858 - Страниц: 426
...emancipated from its chains, and who in the words of the poet may truly say — " I never framed & wish, or formed a plan That flattered me with hopes of earthly bliss, But there I laid the scene." But to enjoy the country, the habits and pursuits of the city must in a great... | |
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I never framed a wish, or formed a plan, That flattered me with hopes of earthly bliss, But there I laid the scene. There early strayed My fancy, ere yet liberty of choice Had found me, or the hope of being free. My very dreams were rural, rural too... 
