 | 1846 - 668 pages
...these gardening is the legitimate and inevitable offspring. " O friendly to the best pursuits of man, Friendly to thought, to virtue, and to peace, Domestic life in rural pleasures pass'd ! Few know thy value, and few taste thy sweets ; Though many boast thy favors, and... | |
 | William Cowper - 1847 - 556 pages
...unsought ? Teil 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 pleasure pass'd ! Few know thy value, and few taste thy. sweets, Though many boast thy favours, and... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 478 pages
...embellish our national character. RURAL LIFE IN ENGLAND. Oh! friendly to the best pursuits of man, Friendly to thought, to virtue, and to peace, Domestic life in rural pleasures past ! COWPER THE stranger who would form a correct opinion of the English character must... | |
 | William Cowper - 1849 - 740 pages
...unsought ? Tell me, and I will tell thee, what is truth. Oh friendly to the best pursuits of man, 290 Friendly to thought, to virtue, and to peace, Domestic life in rural leisure pass'd ! § * Isaiah, xl. 6. f Prov. xxiii. 5. J Dacon otherwise — " What ia trnth i said jesting Pilate,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1850 - 516 pages
...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 pleasure passed ! Few know thy value, and few taste thy sweets , Though many boast thy favours, and... | |
 | 1850 - 492 pages
...of that hereafter. This will be a sweet domestic home : " Oh friendly to the best pursuits of man, Friendly to thought, to virtue, and to peace, Domestic life, in rural pleasure pass'd !" Between the doors is a deer's head, with enormous antlers, — a fine specimen of... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 624 pages
...pursuits of man, Friendly to thought, to virtue, and to peace, Domestic life in rural pleasure passed ! Bible true— A truth the brilliant Frenchman never...in that charter reads with sparkling eves Her titl thec for their own. But foolish man foregoes his proper bliss, E'en as his first progenitor, and quits,... | |
 | Edwin Francis Hatfield - 1852 - 262 pages
...of man — Friendly to thought, to virtue, and to peace, Domestic life, in rural pleasure passed ! Few know thy value, and few taste thy sweets; Though many boast thy favors, and affect To understand and choose thee for their own." An elder brother had found his way... | |
 | George Mogridge - 1870 - 366 pages
...of that hereafter. This will be a sweet domestic home : " Oh, friendly to the best pursuits of man, Friendly to thought, to virtue, and to peace. Domestic life, in rural pleasure pass'd ! " Between the doors is a deer's head, with enormous antlers,— a fine specimen of... | |
 | Edwin Francis Hatfield - 1852 - 248 pages
...sweet innocence, simplicity, and purity are found. " Oh ! friendly to the best pursuits of man — Friendly to thought, to virtue, and to peace, Domestic life, in rural pleasure passed ! Few know thy value, and few taste thy sweets ; Though many boast thy favors, and... | |
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Few know thy value, and few taste thy sweets; Though many boast thy favours, and affect To understand and choose thee for their own. 
