 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,...  Improvement Era - Page 2251901Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Oliphant - 1837 - 374 pages
...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...sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss Peasants enjoy, when princes oft do miss. I have adapted these lines, which are from Greene's " Farewell... | |
 | Musa, Thomas Oliphant (president of the Madrigal society) - 1837 - 520 pages
...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 ruinds, such sleep, such bliss Peasants enjoy, when princes oft do miss. I have adapted these Hues,... | |
 | 1838 - 876 pages
...content ; The quiet mind is richer than a crown : Sweet are the nights in careless slumber spent j The poor estate scorns Fortune's angry frown. Such...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... | |
 | 1838 - 938 pages
...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 Miss Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss. " The homely house that harbours quiet rest, The cottage... | |
 | 1897 - 918 pages
...that savor of content,— The qviiet mind is richer than a crown; Sweet are the nights in careless slumber spent, — The poor estate scorns fortune's...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 - 1844 - 692 pages
...thoughts that savour of content : The quiet mind is richer than a crown : Sweet are the nights in careless V G p s I ^ ݔ t zd# % wl 4 ˇ = ... t F)G 2 A x ^ k <O N n$ O 2 ڿv lieggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss. The homely house that harbours quiet rest, The cottage that... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1847 - 850 pages
...of contentt The quiet mind is richer than a crowni Sweet are the nights in careless slumber spenti The poor estate scorns fortune's angry frown. Such...enjoy when princes oft do miss. The homely house that harbours quiet rest, The cottage that affords no pride nor care, The mean, that 'grees with country... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...mind is richer than a crown : Sweet are the nights in careless slumber spent : The poor estate acorns " labour |! harbours quiet rest,1 The cottage that affords no pride nor care, The mean, that "grees with country... | |
 | Edmund Spenser, Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1847 - 272 pages
...careless slumber spent ; The poor estate scorns Fortune's angry frown ; - Such sweet content, such mind, such sleep, such bliss, Beggars enjoy when princes...that harbors quiet rest, The cottage that affords nor pride nor care. The mean that 'grees with country music best, The sweet consort of mirth and music's... | |
 | Edmund Spenser, Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1847 - 266 pages
...careless slumber spent ; The poor estate scorns Fortune's angry frown ; Such sweet content, such mind, such sleep, such bliss, Beggars enjoy when princes...that harbors quiet rest, The cottage that affords nor pride nor care, The mean that 'grees with country music best, The sweet consort of mirth and music's... | |
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