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,... Littell's Living Age - Página 5471897Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Thomas Oliphant - 1837 - 374 páginas
...Madrigals in the Triumphs of Oriana. CCCLXXIV. Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown : Sweet are the nights...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 páginas
...Madrigals in the Triumphs of Oriana. CCCLXXIV. Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown : Sweet are the nights...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 - 938 páginas
...are not without smoothness and elegance. " Sweet arc the thoughts that savour of content ; The quiet mind is richer than a crown : Sweet are the nights...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 páginas
...are not without smoothness and elegance. " Sweet are the thoughts that savour of 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 sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 páginas
...— ROBERT GREENE.' Content— A Sonnet. Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content : The quiet lieggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss. The homely house that harbours quiet rest, The cottage that... | |
| Edmund Spenser, Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1847 - 262 páginas
...until he was eclipsed by far greater lights : " Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown ; Sweet are the nights...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 páginas
...until he was eclipsed by far greater lights : " Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown ; Sweet are the nights...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 páginas
...— ROBERT GREENE.' Content— A Sonnet. Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content : The quiet iling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in...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... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1847 - 850 páginas
...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...such minds, such sleep, such bliss, Beggars enjoy when princes oft do miss. The homely house that harbours quiet rest, The cottage that affords no pride... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 páginas
...— ROBERT GREENE.' Content— A Sonnet. Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content : The quiet acorns Fortune's angry frown. Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss, Beggars enjoy,... | |
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