 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1849 - 484 pages
...Georg. ii. 467. K Here easy quiet, a secure retreat, A harmless life that knows not how to cheat, With home-bred plenty the rich owner bless, And rural pleasures crown his happiness. Unvex'd with quarrels, undisturb'd with noise, The country king his peaceful realm enjoys : Cool grots,... | |
 | 1851 - 496 pages
...sweetness of his oil : But easy quiet, a secure retreat, A harmless life that knows not how to cheat, With home-bred plenty the rich owner bless, And rural pleasures...his happiness. Unvexed with quarrels, undisturbed by noise, The country king his peaceful realm enjoys. ****** Ye sacred Muses ! with whose beauty fired,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1852 - 378 pages
...with rigour tame. But easy quiet, a secure retreat, A harmless life that knows not how to cheat, With homebred plenty the rich owner bless, And rural pleasures crown his happiness. Unvex'd with quarrels, undisturb'd with noise, The country king his peaceful realm enjoys: Cool grots... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 548 pages
...somni. Vino. GEOBO. Here easy quiet, a secure retreat, A harmless life that knows not how to cheat, With home-bred plenty the rich owner bless, And rural pleasures crown his happiness. Unvex'd with quarrels, undisturb'd with noise, The country king his peaceful realm enjoys: Cool grots,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 710 pages
...plenty the rich owner bless, And rural pleasures erown his happiness. Unvex'd with quarrels, undisturb'd with noise, The country king his peaceful realm enjoys: Cool grots, and living lakes, the flow'ry pride Of meada mid steams that through the valley glide, And shajy groves that *asy sleep invite,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 698 pages
...Georg. L 2. T. 447. Here easy quiet, a secure retreat, A harmless life that knows not how to cheat, With home-bred plenty the rich owner bless, And rural pleasures crown his happiness. Unvex'd with quarrels, undisturb'd with noise, The country king his peaceful realm enjoys : Cool grots,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 726 pages
...Georg. L 2. v. 447. Here easy quiet, a secure retreat, A harmiess life that knows not how to cheat, With home-bred plenty the rich owner bless, And rural pleasures crown his happiness. Unvex'd with quarrels, undisturb'd with noise, The country king his peaceful realm enjoys : Cool grots,... | |
 | Robert Clarke (schoolmaster.) - 1855 - 190 pages
...155 " The country king, his peaceful realm enjoys, Un vex' d with quarrels, undisturb'd with noise; Cool grots and living lakes, the flowery pride Of...meads, and streams, that through- the valley glide." Sbimile. 156 In prose, the Simile clears — enforces thought; And Poetry's with life and beauty fraught... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 pages
...sweetness of his oil. But easy quiet, a secure retreat, A harmless life that knows not how to cheat, With home-bred plenty the rich owner bless, And rural pleasures...pride Of meads, and streams, that through the valley And shady groves that easy sleep invite, [glide, And, alter toilsome days, a soft repose at night.... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 578 pages
...pleasures erown his happiness. Cn vexed with quarrels, undisturbed with noue, The eountry king his peaeeful whose well-rolled walks. With curvature of alow and...sweep — Deception innocent — give ample space To And shady groves that easy sleep invite, [glide, And, after toilsome days, a soft repose at night.... | |
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But easy quiet, a secure retreat, A harmless life that knows not how to cheat With home-bred plenty, the rich owner bless ; And rural pleasures crown his happiness. 
