 | Thomas Oliphant - 1837 - 376 pages
...Madrigals in the Triumphs of Oriaua. CCCLXXIV. Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content, The ijuict mind is richer than a crown: Sweet are the nights...sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss Peasants enjoy, -n hen princes oft do miss. I have adapted these lines, which are from Greene's " Farewell... | |
 | 1838 - 938 pages
...and tenderness of feeling. The following lines are not without smoothness and elegance. " Sweet arc the thoughts that savour of content ; The quiet mind...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... | |
 | 1838 - 876 pages
...of taste, and tenderness of feeling. The following lines are not without smoothness and elegance. " Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content ; The...crown : Sweet are the nights in careless slumber spent j The poor estate scorns Fortune's angry frown. Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...; desirous that you should live, though himself be dying. — ROBERT GREENE.' Content— A Sonnet. t 1 z 躇 t lOt u ] > g L & IW lieggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss. The homely house that harbours quiet rest, The cottage that... | |
 | 1897 - 918 pages
...scribbler, this ruffianly Greene had to say: — Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content,— The qviiet mind is richer than a crown; Sweet are the nights...such minds, such sleep, such bliss, Beggars enjoy while princes oft do miss. The verse is perfect in style; its quiet metre suits the quiet subject But... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...; desirous that you should live, though himself be dying. — ROBERT GREENE.' Content— A Sonnet. not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown 'st...prime. Thou sun 1 of this world both eye and soul, mind«, such sleep, such Ы is*, Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss. The homely house that harbours... | |
 | Edmund Spenser, Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1847 - 262 pages
...— one who shone until he was eclipsed by far greater lights : " Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown...scorns Fortune's angry frown ; Such sweet content, such mind, such sleep, such bliss, Beggars enjoy when princes oft do miss. " The homely house that harbors... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Dunham Deshler - 1847 - 736 pages
...— one who shone until he was eclipsed by far greater lights : " Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown...scorns Fortune's angry frown ; Such sweet content, such mind, such sleep, such bliss, Beggars enjoy when princes oft do miss. " The homely house that harbors... | |
 | Edmund Spenser, Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1847 - 266 pages
...— one who shone until he was eclipsed by far greater lights : " Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown...scorns Fortune's angry frown ; Such sweet content, such mind, such sleep, such bliss, Beggars enjoy when princes oft do miss. " The homely house that harbors... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...; desirous that you should live, though himself be dying. — ROBERT GREENE.' Content— A Sonnet. Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content : The...nights in careless slumber spent : The poor estate acorns Fortune's angry frown. Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss, Beggars enjoy,... | |
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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,... 
