| William Cowper - 1800 - عدد الصفحات: 438
...• Seek and obtain, and often find unsought ? ' Tell me — and I will tell thee what is truth. O, friendly to the best pursuits of man* Friendly to thought, to virtue, and to peace, Domestic life in rural leisure pass'd!nv.)ri !,:,„,,!-• Few know thy value, and few taste thy sweets;... | |
| William Cowper - 1802 - عدد الصفحات: 350
...all, Seek and obtain, and often find unsought ? Tell me — and I will tell thee what is truth. 0, friendly to the best pursuits of man, Friendly to thought, to virtue, and to peace, Domestic life in rural leisure pass'd ! Few know thy value, and few taste thy sweets ; Though many... | |
| Thomas H. Williams - 1804 - عدد الصفحات: 202
...fail to tranquilise the perturbations of worldly anxiety, and renovate the dormant affections. ' O ! friendly to the best pursuits of man, Friendly to thought, to virtue, and to peace, Domestic life in rural leisure pass'd ! Few know thy value, and few taste thy sweets." COWFER. The... | |
| Thomas Clarkson - 1806 - عدد الصفحات: 454
...power. The poet Cowper, in his Contemplation of a Country Life, speaks forcibly on this subject : " O friendly to the best pursuits of man, Friendly to thought, to virtue, and to peace, Domestic life, in rural leisure passed ! Few know thy value, and-few taste thy sweets. Though many... | |
| William Cowper - 1806 - عدد الصفحات: 234
...of all, Seek and obtain, and often find unsought ? Tell me — and I will tell thee what is truth. O friendly to the best pursuits of man, Friendly to thought, to virtue, and to peace, Domestic life in rural leisure passed ! Few know thy value, and few taste thy sweets ; Though many... | |
| Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 430
...feel within walls of clay, and under roofs of humble thatch, you are, in comparison, poor indeed. O, friendly to the best pursuits of man, Friendly to thought, to virtue, and to peace, Domestic life in rural leisure pass'd! Few know thy value, and few taste tliy tweets, Though many boast... | |
| William Cowper - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 212
...all, Seek and obtain, and often find unsought ? Tell me. ...and I will tell thee what is truth. O, friendly to the best pursuits of man, Friendly to thought, to virtue, and to peace, Domestic life in rural leisure pass'd ! Few know thy value, and few taste thy sweets ; Though many... | |
| William Cowper - 1811 - عدد الصفحات: 228
...of all, Seek and obtain, and often find unsought? Tell me. ...and I will tell thee what is truth. O, friendly to the best pursuits of man, Friendly to thought, to virtue,, and to peace, Domestic life in rural leisure pass'd ! Few know thy value, and few taste thy sweets ; Though many... | |
| Charles Marshall - 1813 - عدد الصفحات: 464
...to supply his wants, and regale his taste ; to furnish him at once with both plenty and pleasure." O friendly to the best pursuits of man, "Friendly to thought, to virtue and to peace, Domestic life in rural leisure pass'd. Scenes formed for contemplation, and to nurse The growing seeds... | |
| Edward Berwick - 1813 - عدد الصفحات: 584
...the soul of Julius Caesar.1 When the Egyptian queen entered the Cydnus* she was in all the bloom O friendly to the best pursuits of man, Friendly to thought, to virtue and to peace, Domestic life in rural leisure passed.— COWPEH. 1 See BLACKWELL, vol. ii. p. 228. * Agrippa, Royal... | |
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