...dear consolations to the weary laborer, and enough to repay for the hard condition of life. ' Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, On his own ground.' Eight years had passed since the marriage of Robert Kusbow, and five since his...

...LONDON: HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET. 1839. THE ONLY DAUGHTER. CHAPTER I. ' ' Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound,...trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire." POPE. AT five o'clock on a dark December evening the family equipage of Monzievar took VOL,. II. B...

...leisure, Days of ease, and nights of pleasure ; Sacred Hymen ! these are thine. ODE ON SOLITUDE. HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres...Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire. Blest, who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years, slide soft away, In health of body, peace...

...LONDON: HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER, GREAT MAKLBOROUGH STREET. THE ONLY DAUGHTER. CHAPTER I. * ' Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound,...to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herd* with milk ; whose fields with bread ; Whose flocks supply him with atlirr ; Whose trees in summer...

...coursing, and pheasant-shooting e at its prime for those who can devote themselves to rural sports. " Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air On his own ground." So wrote Pope at the age of twelve years. Thomson, too, talks of the happiness...

...Tenante the plough ;" .nd well too might Pope, when a mere boy, say, " Happy the man, whose highest car« A few paternal acres bound ; Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. " Whose flocks with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose herds supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer...

...them ever since ; not the less for the knowledge I have since had of things far different. " Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound,...Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire. " Blest who can nnconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years slide soft away, In health of body, peace...

...them ever since ; not the less for the knowledge I have since had of things far different. " Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound,...Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire. " Blest who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years slide soft away, In health of body, peace...

...Con tent, a. happy in the enjoyment of what one has, without being uneasy for more. " Happy the mnn whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground." " Godliness with contentment is great gain." Con test. n. a striving to overcome by argument, evidence,...

...!" " For genuine happiness we need not roam ; 'Tis doubtless found with little and at home." " Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres...Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground." " If the poor are confined to a more narrow circle, yet within that circle lie most of those natural...