 I NEVER had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder...  The New Mirror - Page 304edited by - 1843Full view - About this book
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 638 pages
...OWN I NEVER had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small...culture of them, and study of nature. And there (with no design beyond my wall), whole and entire to lie, In no inactive ease, and no unglorious poverty.... | |
 | 1894 - 658 pages
...: " I never had any other desire so strong and so like to covetousness as that one which I have had always — that I might be master at last of a small...and large garden, with very moderate conveniences joyned to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life only to the culture of them and study of... | |
 | Mrs. C. W. Earle - 1897 - 406 pages
...— ' I never had any other desire so strong and so like covetousness as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small...them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of Nature.' To anyone who has found any interest in my book-notes,... | |
 | Albert Forbes Sieveking - 1899 - 472 pages
...Agriculture. I never had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small...culture of them and study of nature, ' And there (with no design beyond my wall) whole and intire to lie, In no unactive ease, and no unglorious poverty.'... | |
 | Albert Forbes Sieveking - 1899 - 488 pages
...Agriculture. I never had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small...culture of them and study of nature, ' And there (with no design beyond my wall) whole and intire to lie, In no unactive ease, and no unglorious poverty.... | |
 | Albert Forbes Sieveking - 1899 - 474 pages
...Agriculture. I never had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small...culture of them and study of nature, ' And there (with no design beyond my wall) whole and intire to lie, In no unactive ease, and no unglorious poverty.'... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 460 pages
...OWN I NEVER had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small...culture of them and study of nature. "And there (with no design beyond my wall), whole and entire to lie. In no inactive ease, and no unglorious poverty."... | |
 | Fitz Roy Carrington - 1903 - 172 pages
...I might be Master at last of a small house and large Garden, with very moderate conveniences joyned to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life...only to the culture of them, and study of Nature." Abraham Cowley to John Evelyn. • To the Reader pHIS little book, begun to please myself, was finished... | |
 | Fitz Roy Carrington - 1903 - 166 pages
..."I never had any other desire so strong, and so like to Covetousness, as that one which I have had always that I might be Master at last of a small house...and large Garden, with very moderate conveniences joyned to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life only to the culture of them, and study... | |
 | 1905 - 1004 pages
...friend Evelyn, " any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small...to the culture of them, and study of Nature." And that honest statesman and mild Epicurean philosopher, Sir William Temple, has expressed a similar desire.... | |
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