 I descend to the grave May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, and many books, both true, Both wise, and both delightful too!  A Book of Bachelors - Side 235af Arthur William Fox - 1899 - 449 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 sider
...stings, The crowd, and buzz, and munnuringa Of this great hive, the city. Ah ! yet ere I descend to th" grave. May I a small house and large garden have,...good as guardian angels are, Only belov'd, and loving ine ! Oh fountains ! when in you shall I Myself, eas'd of unpeaccful thoughts, espy ? Oh fields ! oh... | |
 | 1852 - 874 sider
...stings, The crowd, and buzz, and murmurings, Of this great hive, the city. Ah, yet, ere I descend to th' hted dome, Mix'd and evolv'd, a thousand sprightly...court effuses every pomp; The circle deepens : beam'd guardian-angels are, Only belov'd, and loving me ! Oh, fountains ! when in you shall I Myself, eas'd... | |
 | Henry Augustus Boardman - 1852 - 102 sider
...But his communings were not all with nature. He was like Cowley : — " Ah, yet, ere I descend to the grave, May I a small house and large garden have !...books, both true, Both wise, and both delightful too !" The ' large garden,' the ' friends,' (though not a ' few') and the ' many books,' he had ; and well... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 482 sider
...stings, The crowd, the buzz, and murmurings, Of this great hive, the city. Ah, yet, ere I descend to th' grave, May I a small house and large garden have !...moderately fair, And good as guardian angels are, Only beloved, and loving me ! Oh fountains ! when in you shall I Myself, eased of unpeaceful thoughts, espy?... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 510 sider
...stings, The crowd, the buzz, and murmurings, Of this great hive, the city. Ah, yet, ere I descend to th' grave, May I a small house and large garden have !...moderately fair, And good as guardian angels are, Only beloved, and loving me ! Oh fountains ! when in you shall I Myself, eased of unpeaceful thoughts, espy... | |
 | Drawing-room sibyl - 1855 - 464 sider
...woo the fragrant gale. Ben. T. Dale. GENTLEMAN. 54 You'd like a small house and large garden, With a few friends and many books, both true, Both wise,...both delightful too. And since love ne'er will from you flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as guardian angels are, Only beloved and loving thee.... | |
 | 1860 - 552 sider
...realization of the hope breathed in the drawingrooms of Paris : — ' Ah ! yet, ere I descend into the grave, May I a small house and large garden have, And a few friends, and many friends, both true, Both wise, and yet delightful, too ! ' He really did betake himself from town into... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 sider
...stings, The crowd, and buzz, and murmurings Of this great hive, the city. Ah ! yet, ere I descend to the grave, May I a small house and large garden have,...moderately fair, And good as guardian angels are, Only beloved, and loving me ! Oh fountains ! when in you shall I Myself, eased of unpeaceful thoughts, espy?... | |
 | Christian Nestell Bovee - 1862 - 258 sider
...competence and an unsullied name give equally the conditions of enjoyment. "Ah, yet, ere I descend to the grave, May I a small house and large garden have !...books, both true, Both wise, and both delightful too!" is the amiable wish of Cowley. One having these, if also a husband and a father, in his family is the... | |
 | Christian Nestell Bovee - 1862 - 274 sider
...competence and an unsullied name give equally the conditions of enjoyment. "Ah, yet, ere I descend to the grave, May I a small house and large garden have ! And a few friends, and many books, both trne, Both wise, and both delightful too!" is the amiable wish of Cowley. One having these, if also... | |
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