 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1906 - 628 pages
...more regret, Infected with the manners and the modes It knew not once, the country wins me still. 1 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... | |
 | Wilbert Lee Anderson - Cities and towns - 1906 - 328 pages
...This was two generations before Cowper wrote more than a century ago : " The country wins me still ; I never framed a wish, or formed a plan That flattered me with hope of earthly bliss, But there I laid the scene." • The appreciation of nature is not a raw product... | |
 | John Duke Coleridge Baron Coleridge, Ellis Yarnall - American letters - 1911 - 378 pages
...have enjoyed this year to the full. Never before have I been able to live in the country — though " I never framed a wish or formed a plan That flattered me with hopes of earthly bliss But there I laid the scene." Books in abundance, and a few good pictures I have around me. The Guardian... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1837 - 602 pages
...port, and afflictions, to Heaven's light. Read his beautiful confession. " 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... | |
 | Bristol Naturalists' Society (Avon) - Natural history - 1896 - 574 pages
...Catharina " and " The Rose." And in the Task we have the following (bk. iv.) : "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... | |
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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... 
