t depends Not on the number, but the choice of friends. Books should, not business, entertain the light, And sleep, as undisturbed as death, the night. My house a cottage, more Than palace, and should fitting be For all my use, no luxury. My garden painted... The book-lover's enchiridion, thoughts, selected and arranged by Philobiblos ... - Strona 79autor: Book-lover - 1884Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1901 - Liczba stron: 532
...all my use, not luxury. My garden painted o'er With nature's hand, not art's; and pleasures yiel i, Horace might envy in his Sabine field. Thus would...his race. And in this true delight, These unbought sport?, this happy state, 1 would not fear nor wish my fate, [From The Mkcellania.] ODE OF WIT. Tell... | |
| Henry Troth Coates - 1901 - Liczba stron: 1080
...glorious way hast plough'd My house a cottage more Than palace ; and should fitting lie For all my use, no t needs express his love's excess With words of unmeant...bitterness. Perhaps tis pretty to force together Th 8abine field. Thus would I double my 1 ife's fading space ; For he that runs it well twice runs his... | |
| 1903 - Liczba stron: 1186
...sigh'd, we wept ; we never blush'd before. Discourte concerning the Government of Oliver Cromwell. Thus would I double my life's fading space ; For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.8 Discourse j /. Of Myself. St.xi. RALPH YENNING. 1620(?)-1673. All the beanty... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1902 - Liczba stron: 522
...good alone. The unknown are better than ill known ; Rumour can ope the grave. Acquaintance I'would have, but when 't depends Not on the number, but the...this happy state, I would not fear nor wish my fate, a. [From The Miscellanies.] ODE OF WIT. Tell me, O tell, what kind of thing is wit, Thou who master... | |
| Fitz Roy Carrington - 1903 - Liczba stron: 166
...as death, the night. My house a cottage, more Than palace, and should fitting be For all my use, no luxury. My garden painted o'er With Nature's hand,...this happy state, I would not fear nor wish my fate, I 10 The Garden How vainly men themselves amaze, To win the palm, the oak, the bays ; And their incessant... | |
| William John Courthope - 1903 - Liczba stron: 590
...as Death, the night. My house a cottage more Than palace, and should fitting be For all my use, no luxury. My garden painted o'er With Nature's hand,...pleasures yield Horace might envy in his Sabine field. XI Thus would I double my life's fading space, For he that runs it well, runs twice his race ; And... | |
| John Dando Sedding - 1903 - Liczba stron: 270
...loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But it is when unadorned adorn'd the most." Or Cowley's " My garden painted o'er With Nature's hand, not Art's ; and pleasures yield, Horace might envy in his Sabinc field." Or Addison : " I have often looked upon it as a piece of happiness that I have never... | |
| John Bartlett - 1903 - Liczba stron: 1186
...sigh'd, we wept ; we never blush'd before. Discourse concerning the Government of Oliver Cromtcetl. Thus would I double my life's fading space ; For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.8 Discourse xi. Of Myself. St. xi. RALPH YENNING. 1620(?)-1673. All the beauty... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1906 - Liczba stron: 516
...arts and pleasures yield, Horace might envie in his Sabine field. 11. Thus would I double my lifes fading space, For he that runs it well, twice runs...race. And in this true delight, These unbought sports, and happy state, I would nor feare, nor wish my fate, But boldly say each night, To morrow let my Sunne... | |
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