| English poets - 1801 - 382 sider
...Bio•' graphia Literaria." [From his " Farewell to Folly," 1617.] SWEET are the thoughts that savour of content; The quiet mind is richer than a crown : Sweet are the nights in quiet slumber spent ; The poor estate scorns fortune's angry frown. Such sweet content, such minds,... | |
| George Ellis - 1803 - 468 sider
...graphia Literaria." SONG. [From his " Farewell to Folly," 1017 J 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,... | |
| 1838 - 884 sider
...are not without smoothness and elegance. •a* " Sweet arc the thoughts that savour of content ; Tlie 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,... | |
| Horace Smith - 1827 - 356 sider
...the clamour of the still infuriated combatants. CHAPTER VIII. " 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,... | |
| Horace Smith - 1827 - 1150 sider
...the clashing and the clamour of the still infuriated combatants. " Sweet are the thoughts that faronr 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,... | |
| Robert Greene, Alexander Dyce - 1831 - 338 sider
...beauty fram'd, To see what Nature's cunning could afford. SONG. 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,... | |
| Robert Greene, Alexander Dyce - 1831 - 340 sider
...beauty fram'd, To see what Nature's cunning could afford. SONG. 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 : Suchsweetcontent, such minds,... | |
| Robert Greene, Alexander Dyce - 1831 - 340 sider
...beauty fram'd, To see what Nature's cunning could afford. SONG. 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,... | |
| Musa, Thomas Oliphant (president of the Madrigal society) - 1837 - 520 sider
...composer of one of the 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 in careless slumber spent, The poor estate scorns fortune's angry frown : Such sweet content, such ruinds,... | |
| 1838 - 938 sider
...feeling. The following lines 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 in careless slumber spent ; The poor estate scorns Fortune's angry frown. Such sweet content, such minds,... | |
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