 | English poets - 1801 - 382 pages
...spent ; The poor estate scorns fortune's angry frown. Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such The homely house, that harbours quiet rest, The cottage...pride nor care, The mean, that 'grees with country musick best, The sweet consort of mirth and musick's fare. Obscured life sets down a type of bliss... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1803 - 468 pages
...spent ; The poor estate scorns Fortune's angry frown. Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, suck The homely house that harbours quiet rest, The cottage...bliss ; A mind content both crown and kingdom is. Melicerltis' Description of his Mistress. [Krom his " Arcadia," 1589, and 181O.] TUNE on my pipe the... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1811 - 472 pages
...spent ; The poor estate scorns Fortune's angry frown. Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such The homely house that harbours quiet rest, The cottage...bliss ; . A mind content both crown and kingdom is. Melicertus* Description of his Mistress. [From Iiis " Arcadia," 1589, and 1610.] TUNE on my pipe the... | |
 | England - 1838 - 884 pages
...enjoy, when princes oft do miss. " The homely house that harbours quiet rest, The cottage that alTorda no pride nor care, The mean that 'grees with country music best, The sweet consort of mirth aud music's fare, Obscured life sets down a type of bliss ; A mind content both crown and kingdom is.".... | |
 | Robert Greene, Alexander Dyce - 1831 - 340 pages
...was." { love] The 4to. "heaven:" but see p. 215. $ draw] The 4to. " tlrawes." || her] The 4to. " his." The homely house that harbours quiet rest ; The cottage...content both crown and kingdom is. LINES TRANSLATED FEOM GUAZZO. HE that appal'd*with lust would sail in haste to Corinth um, There to be taught in Lais'... | |
 | Scotland - 1838 - 938 pages
...frown. Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such Miss Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss. " The homely house that harbours quiet rest, The cottage...bliss ; A mind content both crown and kingdom is." The last line of these verses suggests a well known popular poem, of which the composition seems referable... | |
 | 1838 - 876 pages
...frown. Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss. " The homely house that harbours quiet rest, The cottage that affords no pride nor care, The mean that agrees with country music best, The sweet consort of mirth and music's fare, Obscured life sets down... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Dunham Deshler - 1847 - 736 pages
...when princes oft do miss. " The homely house that harbors quiet rest, The cottage that affords nor pride nor care. The mean that 'grees with country...bliss ; A mind content both crown and kingdom is." Or we might borrow a stanza from Lodge, a poet born only three years after Spenser, and who had the... | |
 | Edmund Spenser, Caroline Matilda Kirkland - English poetry - 1847 - 272 pages
...when princes oft do miss. " The homely house that harbors quiet rest, The cottage that affords nor pride nor care. The mean that 'grees with country...bliss ; A mind content both crown and kingdom is." Or we might borrow a stanza from Lodge, a poet born only three years after Spenser, and who had the... | |
 | Edmund Spenser, Caroline Matilda Kirkland - English poetry - 1847 - 266 pages
...when princes oft do miss. " The homely house that harbors quiet rest, The cottage that affords nor pride nor care, The mean that 'grees with country...bliss ; A mind content both crown and kingdom is." Or we might borrow a stanza from Lodge, a poet born only three years after Spenser, and who had the... | |
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Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content ; /The quiet mind is richer than a crown ; Sweet are the nights in careless slumber spent ; The poor estate scorns fortune's angry frown : Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss, Beggars enjoy,... 
