 | George Makepeace Towle - 1870 - 692 էջ
...knowing that when he is wary, there is a spot where he may rest : he can echo, us warmly as the Briton, " Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound." American boarding-houses are mostly asylums for bachelors and maiden ladies, for widowers and widows... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 510 էջ
...1 Mr. Wycherley. — WARBURTON. the letter in the Bodleian Library. : Tins PS has been cut off from years old) that you may perceive how long I have continued...passion for a rural life, and in the same employments of it.1 Happy the man, who free from care, The business and the noise of towns, Contented breathes his... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 520 էջ
...Mr. \Vyclicrley. — WARBUIITON. the letter in the IJodlcian Library. ! This PS has been cut oiT from years old) that you may perceive how long I have continued...passion for a rural life, and in the same employments of it.1 Happy the man, who free from care, The business and the noise of towus, Contented breathes his... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 596 էջ
...i Mr. Wycherley. — WARBTOTON. the letter in the Bodleian Library. J This PS has been cut off from years old) that you may perceive how long I have continued...passion for a rural life, and in the same employments of it.i Happy the man, who free from care, The business and the noise of towns, Contented breathes his... | |
 | Theodore Martin - 1875 - 228 էջ
...Pope in the familiar lines, wonderful for finish as the production of a boTr of eleven, beginning " Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound." With characteristic irony Horace puts his fancies into the mouth of Alphius, a miserly money-lender.... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 էջ
...another's woe, To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.1 stanza 10. Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound. Ode on Solitude. Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die ; Steal from the world,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 էջ
...a knowledge of French and Italian. Pope was a poet from his boyhood. His little poem commencing : " fr written at the age of thirteen, is quite as good as many respectable poets produce at any age. And... | |
 | William Lucas Collins - 1877 - 424 էջ
...Pope in the familiar lines, wonderful for finish as the production of a boy of eleven, beginning " Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound." With characteristic irony Horace puts his fancies into the mouth of Alphius, a miserly money-lender.... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 էջ
...is fitting to be said," very much need. ODE ON SOLITUDE. WRITTEN IIEFOKE POPE WAS TWELVE TEARS OLD. ! Blessed be the day I 'scaped the wrangling crew, From Pyrrho's maze, and Epipur bis native air lu his own ground : Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1881 - 892 էջ
...To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show, Stanta 7. That mercy show to me. 1 Stan2a 10. Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound. Ode on Solitude. Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die ; Steal from the world,... | |
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Ode on Solitude, which I found yesterday by great accident, and which 1 find by the date was written when I was not twelve years old... 
