 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 works of Horace: with English notes - Էջ 422Horace, John Larkin Lincoln - 1884 - 575 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Horace Hooker - 1841 - 240 էջ
...Con tent, a. happy in the enjoyment of what one has, without being uneasy for more. " Happy the mnn whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground." " Godliness with contentment is great gain." Con test. n. a striving to overcome... | |
 | Alexander Reid - 1843 - 122 էջ
...hour !" " For genuine happiness we need not roam ; 'Tis doubtless found with little and at home." " Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound; Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground." " If the poor are confined to a more narrow circle, yet within that circle lie... | |
 | Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Horace Hooker - 1841 - 226 էջ
...contentious person. Con tent, a. happy in the enjoyment of what one has, without being uneasy for more. " Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground." " Godliness with contentment is great gain." Con test, n. a striving to overcome... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Israel Alger (Jun.) - 1846 - 180 էջ
...Heav'n bestows on kings. CHAPTER IV. DESCRIPTIVE PIE'CES. SECTION I. The pleas'ures of retirement. 1. HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound ; Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. 2. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with breaa, Whose flocks supply him with... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1846 - 292 էջ
...poverty, than others with the empire of the world. LESSON TWENTY-FIFTH. The Pleasures of Retirement. 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;... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Allen Fisk - 1846 - 180 էջ
...utter forth a glorious voice ; For ever singing as they shine, " The hand that made us, is i)ivine." 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... | |
 | Disruption, William Cross - 1846 - 462 էջ
...Mr Bacon ?" again Robin inquired, ready to act in a moment on the answer, whatever CHAPTER XXXtll. ' Happy the man whose wish and care, A few paternal acres bound, Content to breath his native air, On his own ground." — POPE. At the sight of his new visitors Mr Bacon was... | |
 | William Cross (of Paisley.) - 1846 - 460 էջ
...breath to reply, when Stiffriggs and Mr Duncanson were seen coming up the avenue. CHAPTER XXXIII. i Happy the man whose wish and care, A few paternal acres bound, Content to breath his native air, On his own ground."—POPE. At the sight of his new visitors Mr Bacon was as... | |
 | Noble Butler - 1846 - 276 էջ
...mind Lifts thine on high? To live in hearts we leave behind Ii not to die. — Campbell. {Bern. 3.] Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound.— Pope. What is geography? The description of the surface of the earth. Where is Harry Blonnt ? Fitz-Eustace... | |
 | 1847 - 522 էջ
...hope, of happiness may be consummated in rural retirement; for, with the poet, he may think that " Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres...Content to breathe his native air, On his own ground." And the individual may reason that if "paternal acres" be a source of Happiness, how much more sweet... | |
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