| William Cowper - 1803 - 310 pages
...Frenchman*, his remark was shrewd.... How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude ! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper.. ..solitude is sweet. Yet neither these delights, nor aught beside That appetite can ask, or wealth provide, Can save us... | |
| William Cowper - 1806 - 316 pages
...Frenchman*, his remark was shrewd-*! How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper — solitude is sweet. Yet neither these delights, nor aught beside, That appetite can ask, or wealth provide, Can save us... | |
| William Cowper - 1806 - 226 pages
...Frenchman*, his remark was shrewd — How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude ! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper — solitude is sweet. Yet neither these delights, nor aught beside, That appetite can ask, or wealth provide, Can save us... | |
| William Cowper - 1808 - 330 pages
...praise the Frenchman,* his remark was How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude 1 But grant rae stHl a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper— -solitude is sweet. Yet neither these delights, nor aught beside That appetite can ask, or wealth provide, Can save us... | |
| William Cowper - 1810 - 390 pages
...Frenchman*, his remark was shrewd — How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper — solitude is sweet. Yet neither these delights, nor aught beside, That appetite can ask, or wealth provide, Can save us... | |
| William Cowper - 1817 - 234 pages
...Frenchman,* his remark was shrewd — How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may Whisper — solitude is sweet. Yet neither these delights, nor aught beside, That appetite can ask, or wealth provide, Can save ns... | |
| John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 pages
...Frenchman; his remark was shrewd,— How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude ! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper— Solitude is sweet. Yet neither these delights, nor aught beside, That appetite can ask, or wealth provide, Can save us... | |
| William Cowper - 1821 - 556 pages
...the Frenchman *, his remark was shrewd How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper — solitude is sweet. Yet neither these delights, nor aught beside, That appetite can ask, or wealth provide, Can save us... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 314 pages
...Frenchman*, his remark was shrewd — How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper — solitude is sweet. Yet neither these delights, nor aught beside, That appetite can ask, or wealth provide, Can save us... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 594 pages
...watering-places, and carry the metropolis with them. I like more elbow-room, and fewer incumbrances. I like solitude, when I give myself up to it, for the sake of solitude ; nor do I ask for " a friend in ray retreat, Whom I may whisper solitude is sweet." The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty,... | |
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