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
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - Liczba stron: 392
...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,...fading space ; For he that runs it well twice runs his And in this true delight, These unbought sports, this happy state, 1 would not fear, nor wish, my fate;... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - Liczba stron: 840
...as death, the night. My house a cottage more Than palace; and should fitting be For all my use, no X ract-. And in this true delight, These unbought sports, this happy state, I would not fear, nor wish,... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - Liczba stron: 576
...palace ; and should fitting be For all my use, no luxury. My garden painted o'er With Nature'shand, not Art's; and pleasures yield, Horace might envy...twice runs his race. And in this true delight, These untaught sports, this happy state, I would not fear, nor wish, my fate ; But boldly say each night,... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - Liczba stron: 562
...the night. My house a cottage more Than palace ; and should tilting Ix' for all my use, no luxury. I My garden painted o'er With Nature's hand, not Art's;...Sabine field. Thus would I double my life's fading sMce; For he that runs it well twice runs his And in this true delight. These unbought sports, this... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1876 - Liczba stron: 466
...painted o'er With Nature's band, not arts ; and pleasures yield, Horace might envy in his Subine Held. ain, and that with offers of very good commission...which had other work for me to do, placed a secret av nubought sports, that happy state, I would not f ear nor wish my fate, But boldly say each night, To-morrow... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1877 - Liczba stron: 558
...as death, the night. My house a cottage more Than palace, and should fitting be, For all my life, no luxury ; My garden painted o'er With nature's hand,...race, And in this true delight, These unbought sports, that happy state, I would not fear, nor wish my fate, But boldly say each night, . To-morrow let my... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - Liczba stron: 630
...fitting be For all my use, no luxury. My garden painted o'er With Nature'shand, notArt's; andpleasures yield, Horace might envy in his Sabine field. Thus...delight, These unbought sports, this happy state, 1 would not fear, nor wish, my fate ; But boldly say each night, To-morrow let my sun his beams display,... | |
| Thomas Arnold - 1877 - Liczba stron: 656
...Vote ' (ie a wish or prayer), written when he was but thirteen, ends with this remarkable stanza : — Thus would I double my life's fading space, For he...And in this true delight, These, unbought sports, and happy state, I would not fear nor wish my fate, But boldly say each night, To-morrow let the sun... | |
| Francis Jacox - 1877 - Liczba stron: 400
...quce non sperabitur hora. Cowley was treading closely in the footsteps of Horace when he wrote, — "Thus would I double my life's fading space, For he...well, twice runs his race. And in this true delight, . . . I would not fear nor wish my fate, But boldly say each night, To-morrow let my sun his beams... | |
| Amelia B. Edwards - 1878 - Liczba stron: 324
...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,...race. And in this true delight, These unbought sports, that happy state, I would not fear nor wish my fate, But boldly say each night, To-morrow let my sun... | |
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