 Oh, speak the joy ! ye, whom the sudden tear Surprises often, while you look around, And nothing strikes your eye but sights of bliss, All various Nature pressing on the heart ; An elegant sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books,...  The American Farmer - Page 54by John S. Skinner, Editor. - 1826Full view - About this book
 | James Thomson - 1842 - 440 pages
...sudden tear Surprises often, while you look around, And nothing strikes your eye hut sights of hliss, All various nature pressing on the heart: An elegant...sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, hooks. Ease and alternate lahour, useful life, Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven. These are... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...fix The generous purpose in the glowing brenst. Oh, speak the joy ! ye whom the sudden tear Surprises w powers, ' Will rising wonders sing: I cannot go...Sustaining all yon orbs, and alt their suns; From sveming labor, useful life. Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven. These are the matchless joys of virtuous... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast. Oh, speak the joy ! ye whom the sudden tear Surprises z'd on Blouzelind, True speaks that ancient proverb, "Love is blind. As at hot-cockles labor, useful life. Progressive virtue; and approving Heaven. These are the matchless joys of virtuous... | |
 | American literature - 1835 - 638 pages
...•",.->/.".--..,•..,.-\". _ —,v/V-••vvvvv w." ^ THE ESSAYIST — NO. IV. ORIGINAL. The Essayist— No. IV. " An elegant sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, Ease and alternate labor, useful life, Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven! Tliesc arc the matchless joys of virtuous... | |
 | Gem book - 1846 - 398 pages
...purpose in the glowing breast. Oh speak the joy ! ye whom the sudden tear Surprises often, while you louk around, And nothing strikes your eye but sights of...An elegant sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural pjiiet, friendship, books, Ease and alternate labour, useful life, Progressive virtue, and approving... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - English poetry - 1846 - 350 pages
..." weary labyrinth of state," or the " smooth barbarity of courts." His essentials of happiness were An elegant sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural...useful life, Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven. And with genuine poetic pride, he sings : I care not Fortune what you me deny, You cannot rob me of... | |
 | James Waddel Alexander - Labor - 1847 - 300 pages
...thriftless father. Sweeten home, and you close nine out of ten doors to temptation. IV. HUSBAND AND WIPE. " Sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural quiet, friendship,...! These are the matchless joys of virtuous love." THOMSON. IT is well known to all readers of fiction, that the novel commonly ends, as soon as the happy... | |
 | James Thomson - 1847 - 504 pages
...1155 The generous purpose in the glowing breast. Oh, speak the joy ! ye whom the sudden tear Surprises often, while you look around, And nothing strikes...of bliss, All various nature pressing on the heart ; 1160 An elegant sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, Ease and alternate... | |
 | William Harvey Wells - English language - 1847 - 228 pages
...laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed, The reverend champion stood. " — Goldsmith. " An elegant sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, Ease and alternate labor, useful life, Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven." — Thomson. " How poor, how rich, how... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Sanford Barnes - American drama - 1848 - 510 pages
...of her father and aunt, their future career exemplified that beautiful description of the poet : " An elegant sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural...life, Progressive virtue and approving Heaven. These arc the matchless joys of virtuous love, And thus their moments fly." CHAPTER VII. Oh, if there is... | |
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