| Edith Augusta Sawyer - 1899 - Liczba stron: 386
...root of all pleasure, as well as of all power. Ruskin. How various his employments, whom the world Calls idle, and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler, too ! Cmvper. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, 1554. A SWEET attractive kinde of grace A full assurance given by lookes... | |
| William Cowper - 1900 - Liczba stron: 346
...sighing say, 350 I knew at least one hare that had a friend. How various his employments whom the world Calls idle, and who justly in return Esteems that...too ! Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen, 355 Delightful industry enjoyed at home, And Nature in her cultivated trim Dressed to his taste, inviting... | |
| 1903 - Liczba stron: 1186
...— Lady Holland's Memoir of Sydney Smith, vol. ip 259. How various his employments whom the world Calls idle, and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too ! The Task. Book Hi. The Garden, Line 362. Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too. Line see. I burn... | |
| William Cowper - 1905 - Liczba stron: 716
...sighing, say, 350 I knew at least one.hare that had a friend. How various his employments, whom the world Calls idle ; and who justly, in return, Esteems that...perhaps his pen, Delightful industry enjoy'd at home, 315 summer-months' retreat 1793-1803 ; summer-month retreats 1785, 1786 ; summer-months retreat 1787,... | |
| William Cowper - 1905 - Liczba stron: 916
...book, the "Garden," is the innocent happiness and various occupations of the man — " whom the world Calls idle, and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too." In the main, it is a Georgic on gardening, with an interest which Virgil has not because it is the... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1908 - Liczba stron: 414
...holly; ivy; bays; juniper; cypress-trees ; yew ; pine-apple-trees; fir-trees; rosemary; lavender;5 "Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen, Delightful...abroad — • Can he want occupation who has these?" Cowper. The Task. Book III. The Garden. 2 Civility. CiviIization. 3 Elegancy. Elegance. "A thing of... | |
| William Cowper - 1908 - Liczba stron: 632
...sighing say, 350 I knew at least one hare that had a friend. How various his employments whom the world Calls idle, and who justly in return Esteems that...a garden, and perhaps his pen, Delightful industry enjoyed at home, And Nature in her cultivated trim Dressed to his taste, inviting him abroad — Can... | |
| William Aspenwall Bradley - 1910 - Liczba stron: 202
...Odyssey. Translated by Alexander Pope. 18 GARDEN PLEASURES « How various his employments whom the world Calls idle, and who justly in return Esteems that...a garden, and perhaps his pen, Delightful industry enjoyed at home, And Nature in her cultivated trim Dressed to his taste, inviting him abroad — Can... | |
| William Aspenwall Bradley - 1910 - Liczba stron: 204
...and perhaps his pen, Delightful industry enjoyed at home, And Nature in her cultivated trim Dressed to his taste, inviting him abroad — Can he want occupation who has these? • • !'i I*! i* .*. * • • • The morning finds the self-sequestered man Fresh for his task,... | |
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