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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... "
Progressive exercises in Latin lyrics. [With] Key - Page 66
by Joseph Edwards - 1835
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...the chapel's silver bell you hear. That summons you to all the pride of pray'r: Ode on Solitude 107 (1. 1 —4) 108 Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world,...
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英美名詩一百首

American poetry - 1993 - 412 pages
...詩中提及的二位詩 人是荷馬、 維吉茁和彌茁頓。 29 Ode on Solitude 川e 沮nderPope Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres...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...
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Writing and the Rise of Finance: Capital Satires of the Early Eighteenth Century

Colin Nicholson - Business & Economics - 1994 - 252 pages
...suggested by comparing the youthfully confident and self-sustaining dispositions of his Ode on Solitude: Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal...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...
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City as Landscape: A Post-postmodern View of Design and Planning

Tom Turner - Architecture - 1996 - 262 pages
...life. Rural retreat became both a poetic theme and a garden theme. His Ode on solitude was Horatian: Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres...Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Pope did not see the formal gardens of his day as peaceful forest retreats. His Epistle to Lord Burlington...
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Resemblance & Disgrace: Alexander Pope and the Deformation of Culture

Helen Deutsch - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 300 pages
...equivalent."1" The poem begins with a vision of an independence contained by securely possessed patrimony. Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal...Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. He concludes with a fantasy of retirement and anonymity: 85 RESEMBLANCE AND DISGRACE Thus let me live,...
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Zeitgenosse Horaz: der Dichter und seine Leser seit zwei Jahrtausenden

Ernst A. Schmidt - Authors and readers - 1996 - 500 pages
...same arts that did gain 120 A power must it maintain. 5. Alexander Pope (1700-1709) Ode on Solitude Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres...Content to breathe his native air. In his own ground. 5 Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread. Whose focks supply him with attire, Whose trees in...
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Collected Works of Lindley Murray

Lindley Murray - 1996 - 876 pages
...bestows on kings. COTTON. CHAPTER IV. DESCRIPTIVE PIECES. SECTION I. The pleasures of retirement. JLlAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres...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...
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Rural Well-being: From Vision to Action : Proceedings of the Fourth Annual ...

Ismail Serageldin, David R. Steeds - Social Science - 1997 - 444 pages
...these pressures and to flee to the bucolic images of the "unspoiled" countryside. Alexander Pope wrote: Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres...content to breathe his native air in his own ground. Thus unseen unknown let me live Unlamented let me die, steal from the world and not a stone tell where...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

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...
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Livingston

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...
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