 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1852 - 430 pages
...him concerning the affair. CHAPTER Tip! DIGNITY OF LABOR. Oh, frielidly to the best pursuits of man, Friendly to thought, to virtue, and to peace, Domestic life in rural labor passed. Cowpm. AMONG the crowded assembly who had witnessed the interment, perhaps there was... | |
 | William Cowper - 1853 - 796 pages
...290 Friendly to thought, to virtue, and to peace ' Domestick life in rural leisure pass'd ! Few^know thy value, and few taste thy sweets ; Though many...affect To understand and choose thee for their own. 295 But foolish man foregoes his proper bliss, E'en a? his first progenitor, aud quits, Though plac'd... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1856 - 600 pages
...Heaven-born, and destined to the skies again. THE С II ASE. 0 FRIENDLY to the best pursuits of man. Friendly to thought, to virtue, and to peace, Domestic life in rural pleasure pass'd I Few know thy value, and few taste thy sweets : Though many boast thy favors, and... | |
 | 1857 - 470 pages
...MANHOOD. BY HEV. WILLIAM CLIFT, AM, Stonlngton, Connecticut. " 0 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 affect... | |
 | William Cowper - 1859 - 324 pages
...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...their own. But foolish man foregoes his proper bliss, E'en as his first progenitor, and quits, Though placed in Paradise (for earth has still Some traces... | |
 | William Cowper - 1860 - 506 pages
...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...their own. But foolish man foregoes his proper bliss, E'en as his first progenitor, and quits, Though placed in Paradise (for earth has still Some traces... | |
 | William Cowper - 1864 - 622 pages
...find unsought ! Tell me, and I will tell thce, what is truth. Oh friendly to the best pursuits of man, Friendly to thought, to virtue, and to peace, Domestic...taste thy sweets, Though many boast thy favours, and aflect To understand and cliuse thee for their own. But foolish man foregoes his proper bliss Even... | |
 | William Cowper - 1864 - 454 pages
...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 pleasure pass'd ! Few know thy value, and few taste thy sweets ; Though many boast thy favours, and... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1865 - 518 pages
...embellish our national character. RURAL LIFE IN ENGLAND. Oh! friendly to the hest 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 - 1866 - 720 pages
...Provrrhs xxiii. 5. 8 Ecclesiastes i. 2. * St. Jt/hn iviii. 38. Oh, friendly to the best pursuits of raan, Friendly to thought, to virtue, and to peace, Domestic life in rural leisure pass'd ! Pew know thy value, and few taste thy sweets, Though many boast thy favours, and affect To understand... | |
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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. 
