 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...the chapel's silver bell you hear. That summons you to all the pride of pray'r: Ode on Solitude 107 (1. 1 —4) 108 Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world,... | |
 | Thomas Mellon - 1995 - 544 pages
...Christian feeling and duties. Pope must have had a similar impression regarding rural life when he wrote: Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres...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 of mind, Quiet by... | |
 | Colin Nicholson - 1994 - 252 pages
...suggested by comparing the youthfully confident and self-sustaining dispositions of his Ode on Solitude: Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal...Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire 0~8) with Epistle II, ii, first published in 1737.42 There, a monetarised world of values now rendering... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1996 - 876 pages
...bestows on kings. COTTON. CHAPTER IV. DESCRIPTIVE PIECES. SECTION I. The pleasures of retirement. JLlAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres...summer yield him shade, In winter, fire. Blest, who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years, slide soft away, In healdi of body, peace of mind, Quiet... | |
 | Helen Deutsch - 1996 - 300 pages
...equivalent."1" The poem begins with a vision of an independence contained by securely possessed patrimony. Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal...Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. He concludes with a fantasy of retirement and anonymity: 85 RESEMBLANCE AND DISGRACE Thus let me live,... | |
 | Tom Turner - 1996 - 262 pages
...life. Rural retreat became both a poetic theme and a garden theme. His Ode on solitude was Horatian: Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres...Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Pope did not see the formal gardens of his day as peaceful forest retreats. His Epistle to Lord Burlington... | |
 | Ernst A. Schmidt - 1996 - 500 pages
...same arts that did gain 120 A power must it maintain. 5. Alexander Pope (1700-1709) Ode on Solitude Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres...Content to breathe his native air. In his own ground. 5 Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread. Whose focks supply him with attire, Whose trees in... | |
 | John Rieder - 1997 - 284 pages
...years" by establishing within her the Horatian self-sufficiency Pope longs for in his "Ode on Solitude:" Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal...Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire. 36 The final verse paragraph of "Tintern Abbey" manages to recapitulate both the economies of sublimation... | |
 | Ismail Serageldin, David R. Steeds - 1997 - 444 pages
...these pressures and to flee to the bucolic images of the "unspoiled" countryside. Alexander Pope wrote: Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres...content to breathe his native air in his own ground. Thus unseen unknown let me live Unlamented let me die, steal from the world and not a stone tell where... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian. 8933 'Ode on Solitude' (written when aged about 12) will see you in the vestry after service.' 10879 I...to pray for you at St Paul's, but with no very live 8934 'Ode on Solitude' (written when aged about 12) Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented... | |
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Happy the man*, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter,... 
