 After all," said Walter aloud, "the scholar was right — there is nothing like the country! " Oh, happiness of sweet retired content, To be at once secure and innocent!" " Be them verses in the Psalms, sir ? " said the corporal, who was close behind....  Eugene Aram: A Tale - Pagina 223door Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1832Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 806 pagina’s
...Fairfax. Happy the man, who his whole time doth bound Within the* enclosure of his little ground. Cowley. Oh ! happiness of sweet retired content, To be at once secure and innocent. Dcnliam. Certain graces and happinenes, peculiar to every language, give life and energy to the words.... | |
 | Catharine Harbeson Waterman - 1839 - 284 pagina’s
...as well as " the corn-flower blue," of our own arable lands, is made the happy emblem of felicity. Oh ! happiness of sweet retired content, To be at once secure and innocent. DENHAM. FELICITY. All the good we have reets in the mind ; By whose proportions only we redeem Our... | |
 | 1847 - 334 pagina’s
...endure; Blinder with light and sick of being well, In tumults seek their peace, their heaven in hell; On happiness, of sweet retired content, To be at once secure and innocent." * The brick towers of Vanbrugh House (or Castle as it has been christened), overlook the east wall... | |
 | William Dowling - 1857 - 412 pagina’s
...ruin and increase ; As rivers lost in seas some secret vein Thence re-conveys, there to be lost again. Oh happiness of sweet retired content ! To be at once secure and innocent. Windsor the next (where Mars with Venus dwells, Beauty with strength) above the valley swells Into... | |
 | Edmund Waller - 1857 - 404 pagina’s
...ruin and increase; As rivers lost in seas some secret vein Thence reconvcys, there to be lost again. 0 happiness of sweet retired content! To be at once secure and innocent. Windsor the next (where Mars with Venus dwells, Beauty with strength) above the valley swells 40 Into... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pagina’s
...and increase ; as rivers lost in seas some secret vein thence reconveys, there to be lost again. O happiness of sweet retired content, to be at once secure and innocent! SIR J. DENHAM THE ALPS STIFF with eternal ice and hidden snow, that fell a thousand centuries ago,... | |
 | Richard Henry Clarke - 1872 - 564 pagina’s
...these woods . More free from peril than the envious court ? " Or rather may we not exclaim:— " O, happiness of sweet retired content! To be at once secure and innocent!" But the life of the pioneer missionary is one of labor, travel, and self-denial. They traversed vast... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pagina’s
...the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door, Embittering all his state. COVVPER : Horaci. Oh! happiness of sweet retired content! To be at once secure and innocent. SIR J. DENHAM. One thought content the good to be enjoy'd; This every little accident destroy'd. DRYDEN.... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1877 - 472 pagina’s
...halfa-dozen spaniels, and the shrill small tongue of one younger straggler of the canine crew, who had broken indecorously from the rest, and already entered the...who, if I recollect right, set the Psalms to verse. 1 I hope they meet with your approbation ?" " Indeed, sir, and no—since they bcn't in the Psalms."... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pagina’s
...the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door, Embittering all his slate. COWPER : floract. Oh ! happiness of sweet retired content ! To be at once secure and innocent. SIR J. DENHAM. One thought content the good to be enjoy'd; This every little accident destroy'd. DRYDEN.... | |
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