 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...content, a conscience clear. JOSHUA SYLVESTER. CONTENT. LIE," 1617. SWEET are the thoughts that savor at the close of day Will spread his sail and seize...waters of his path. Noon descends around me now : harbors quiet rest, The cottage that affords no pride or care, The mean, that 'grees with country music... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 628 pages
...toys as cloyed my head, But this I learned at Virtue's gate, The way to good is never late.' SONG. Sweet are the thoughts, that savour of content ; The...Sweet are the nights in careless slumber spent ; The homely house that harbours quiet rest ; The cottage that affords no pride nor care ; The mean that... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 632 pages
...toys as cloyed my head, But this I learned at Virtue's gate, The way to good is never late.' SONG. Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content ; The...Sweet are the nights in careless slumber spent ; The homely house that harbours quiet rest ; The cottage that affords no pride nor care ; The mean that... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 842 pages
...the cordwainer's wife with * a garland of bays, pursuant to his last request !' Content — A Sonnet. Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content ; The...mind is richer than a crown : Sweet are the nights iu careless slumber spent : The poor estate scorns Fortune's angry frown. Such sweet content, such... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 626 pages
...toys as cloyed my head, But this I learned at Virtue's gate, The way to good is never late.' SONG. Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content ; The quiet mind is richer than a crosvn ; Sweet are the nights in careless slumber spent ; The poor estate scorns fortune's angry frown... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...; Then hey nonny nonny, hey nonny nonny! THOMAS DEKKEK. CONTENT. SWEET are the thoughts that savor GTG mis.-*. The homely house that harbors quiet rest. The cottage that affords no pride or care, The mean... | |
 | - 1881 - 854 pages
...VoL ПОП. Monday, March 21, 1881. Price One Fenny CONTENTMENT. " Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content — The quiet mind is richer than a crown...frown. Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, luch bliss, Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do mise. The homely house that harbors quiet rest, The... | |
 | Robert Greene - 1886 - 382 pages
...breathe in every line of rest, like that beautiful one in his ' Farewell to Folly,' beginning — ' Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content ; The quiet mind is richer than a crown." Oblivious to the graces of his most virtuous wife for the blandishments of ' a sorry ragged quean,'... | |
 | Arthur Gilman - 1882 - 264 pages
...peace, And smooth the bed of death. NATHANIEL COTTON. A MIND CONTENT. Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content — The quiet mind is richer than a crown...enjoy, when princes oft do miss. The homely house that harbors quiet rest, The cottage that affords no pride or care, The mean that 'grees with country music... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 pages
...type of bliss: A mind content both crown and kingdom is. g. KOBEKT GREENE — Sony. Farewell to Folly. Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content; The...slumber spent; The poor estate scorns fortune's angry Irown: Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss, Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss.... | |
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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,... 
