 Compensating his loss with added hours Of social converse and instructive ease, And gathering, at short notice, in one group The family dispersed, and fixing thought, Not less dispersed by day-light and its cares. I crown thee king of intimate delights,...  The Papaw Thicket - Seite 52von Paul Griswold Huston - 1906Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Winter pictures - 1882 - 200 Seiten
...daylight and its cares. I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturbed...and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening know. No rattling wheels stop short before these gates ; No powdered pert proficient in the art Of sounding... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1882 - 460 Seiten
...daylight and its cares. I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, homeborn happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturbed...and the hours Of long, uninterrupted evening know. No rattling wheels stop short before these gates; No powdered pert, proficient in the art Of sounding... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1882 - 538 Seiten
...king of intimate delights," he cries, addressing winter — " Fireside enjoyments, homeborn happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturbed...and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening know." And then his complacency bursts forth once more. " No rattling wheels stop short before these gates,... | |
 | Garden - 1882 - 530 Seiten
...daylight and its cares. I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturbed...and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know." Here we see a remarkable example of the compensating processes by which Providence equalizes happiness,... | |
 | Christian ethics - 1883 - 296 Seiten
...mind in health Is rest of heart and pleasure felt at home. Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturbed...and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening know. Books and a garden, it is said, give happiness, yet not perfect happiness, for — The world was sad,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1883 - 274 Seiten
...English name — " I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, homeborn happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturbed...and the hours Of long, uninterrupted evening know.' In these remarks we have confined ourselves entirely to The Task — the greatest work of Cowper's... | |
 | E.H. Butler & Co - 1853 - 396 Seiten
...daylight and its cares. I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturbed retirement and the hours Of long, uninterrupted evenings know. WILLIAM COWPER. 94.-THE MAN IN BLACK. OLIVER GOLDSMITH was born at the village of Pallas,... | |
 | Daniel Greenleaf Thompson - 1884 - 632 Seiten
...— • I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, 1 Thomson. And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturbed...and the hours Of long, uninterrupted evening know.' And if we would know more of these ' intimate delights,' whose pen but that of Whittier can depict... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1884 - 486 Seiten
...daylight and its carea, I crown thec king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, homeborn happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturbed retirement and the hours Of long, uninterrupted evining know. No rattling wheels stop short before these gates; No powdered pert, proficient in the... | |
 | Daniel Greenleaf Thompson - 1884 - 630 Seiten
...• ' I crown thee king of intimate delights. Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all tho comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturbed retirement...and the hours Of long, uninterrupted evening know.' And if we would know more of these ' intimate delights,' whose pen but that of Whittier can depict... | |
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