 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian. 8933 'Ode on Solitude' (written when aged about 12) will see you in the vestry after service.' 10879 I...to pray for you at St Paul's, but with no very live 8934 'Ode on Solitude' (written when aged about 12) Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented... | |
 | Barry Evenchick - History - 1999 - 132 pages
...Livingston? Perhaps the following words from Alexander Pope's Ode on Solitude answer the question: Ha|iji;v the man , whose wish and care A few paternal acres...Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. One THE EARLY YEARS . . . . — . -«. . '• . ' . " Samo's Tavern was built by William Ely in 1765... | |
 | Frank McCourt - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 378 pages
...forget the Greeks for a while to sing the praises of the great Alexander Pope and his Ode on Solitude. Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres...Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. And remember, boys and girls, is there a girl here? raise your hand if you're a girl, no girls? remember,... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...pleasantly. Gc, hap, happen, and the humorous happenstance, from circumstance, happy, mayhap; mishap. Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air On his own ground ; Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire;... | |
 | N. H. Keeble - History - 2001 - 322 pages
...his situation. Casimir rejects the Horatian beatus ille theme of the Royalist retired to his estates ('Happy the man, whose wish and care, / A few paternal acres bound', in Pope's translation). In Vaughan's translation, Casimir answers Horace's Beatus ille ode with the... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 680 pages
...distinguish them from each other. / am, dear Reader, Thy obliged Friend, R. SAUNDERS. The COUNTRY MAN. Happy the Man whose Wish and Care A few paternal Acres...Summer yield him Shade, In Winter Fire. Blest, who can unconcernedly find HOuFS, Days and Years slide soft away, In Health of Body, Peace of Mind, Quiet by... | |
 | Astrid Fitzgerald - Spiritual life - 2001 - 390 pages
...are conscious of attaining to a higher self-possession. It shines for all. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres...Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground.... Sound sleep by night; study and ease, Together mixed; sweet recreation; And innocence, which most does... | |
 | Elizabeth R. Lambert - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 228 pages
...n3. 12. Ibid., 1:152. Burke may have been quoting Alexander Pope's "Ode on Solitude" which begins: "Happy the man, whose wish and care / A few paternal acres bound." 13. Prior, Life of Edmund Burke, 6. 14. Corres., 1:101. 15. Ibid., 1:359-62. Editors of Burke's correspondence... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Reference - 2004 - 320 pages
...distinguish them from each other. lam, dear Reader, Thy obliged Friend, R. SAUNDERS. The Country Man. Happy the Man whose Wish and Care A few paternal Acres...Summer yield him Shade, In Winter Fire. Blest, who can unconcernedly find Hours, Days and Years slide soft away, In Health of Body, Peace of Mind, Quiet by... | |
 | Hilaire Dubourcq - Cooking - 2004 - 208 pages
...garden] perhaps mirrors Franklin's own common sense philosophy regarding the cultivation of ones garden: Happy the Man whose wish and care A few paternal Acres...Content to breathe his native Air In his own Ground Garden Salad '/., head of Boston lettuce ~ 1 cucumber ~ 2 carrots 2 tablespoons chopped mint leaves... | |
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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... 
