 | Proverbial folk-lore - 1874 - 176 pages
...selfcontained must sometimes admit with the poet Cowper; — Sweet is solitude ! But give me still a Friend in my retreat Whom I may whisper, Solitude is sweet ! So many and such varied excellencies are required for the constituting of a true friend, that there... | |
 | Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa - 1874 - 488 pages
...the Frenchman, his remark was good. ' How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude, But give me still a friend in my retreat Whom I may whisper — ' Solitude is sweet.' " ** When the first hour's exercise was over in the refractory prisoner's yard, I was ordered to my... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 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. Ibid. Line 739. Is base in kind, and born to be a slave. Table Talh. Line 28. N0. Freedom has a thousand... | |
 | William Cowper - 1874 - 330 pages
...Frenchman, his remark was shrewd, ' How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude ! 740 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... | |
 | 1875 - 648 pages
...do often lie too deep for tears." Wordmortk. To the second of two objects: — " But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper — Solitude is sweet." An adverbial sentence is one that takes the place and follows in every way the construction of an adverb.... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pages
...the Frenchman, his remark was shrewd,1 How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet. Ibid. Line 739. Is base in kind, and born to be a slave. Table T,M. Lint 28. No. Freedom has a thousand... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...Frenchman ; his remark was shrewd : " How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude 1 But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper, ' Solitude is sweet!' " COWPER. Thrice happy he who by some shady grove, Far from the clamorous world, doth live his own... | |
 | Alan Benjamin Cheales - 1875 - 188 pages
...selfcontained must sometimes admit with the poet Cowper ; — Sweet is solitude ! But give me still a Friend in my retreat Whom I may whisper, Solitude is sweet ! So many and such varied excellencies are required for the constituting of a true friend, that there... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1875 - 244 pages
...HOMES, AND BLESSINGS JOR DAILY USE. How sweet, how passing sweet, is Solitude ! But grant me still a friend in my retreat Whom I may whisper, Solitude is sweet ! COWPEK. The good he scorned, Stalked off reluctant, like an ill-used ghost, Not to return. EGBERT... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1876 - 714 pages
...HOMES, AND BLESSINGS JOB 1U11.Y USE. How sweet, how passing sweet, is Solitude ! But grant me still a friend in my retreat Whom I may whisper, Solitude is sweet ! COWPER. .. The good he scorned, Stalked off reluctant, like an ill-used ghost, Not to return. ROBERT... | |
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I am not for criticising hedgerows and black cattle. I go out of town in order to forget the town and all that is in it. There are those who for this purpose go to wateringplaces, and carry the metropolis with them. 
