 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1804 - 572 pages
...his life, worthy of quotation : More discontents I never had Since I was born, than here VOL. III. D Where I have been, and still am sad, In this dull...ne'er invented such Ennobled numbers for the Press, Than where I loath'd so much. In another part of his volume he has still more emphatically expressed... | |
 | Robert Herrick - English poetry - 1810 - 280 pages
...of Dean Prior, in Devonshire, to which he was presented by Charles the First, in 162y, seems so re. Where I have been, and still am sad, In this dull...ne'er invented such Ennobled numbers for the press, Than where I loath'd so much. XXI. CHERRY-RIPE. CHERRY-ripe, ripe, ripe (I cry) Full and fair ones... | |
 | England - 1949 - 1074 pages
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 | Robert Herrick - 1823 - 330 pages
...the dill ness and obscurity of his retirement : More discontents I never had, Since I was born, then here ; Where I have been, and still am sad, In this dull Devonshire. He describes Deanbourn, a river near to which he occasionally lived, as rockie and rude, and he characterizes... | |
 | Robert Herrick - Elegiac poetry, English - 1825 - 334 pages
...Sufferings of the Clergy, p. 263. 3 Wood's Athen. Oxon. More discontents I never had, Since I was born, then here ; Where I have been, and still am sad, In this dull Devonshire. He describes Deanbourn, a river near to which he occasionally lived, as rockie and rude, and he characterizes... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1846 - 330 pages
...as the Jeas ; And rude, almojl, as rudej} falvages. And in another place he fays : More difcontents I never had, Since I was born, than here ; Where I have been, and Jlill am fad, • Yet it was during this period of his life that, thrown upon the refources of his... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1846 - 324 pages
...as the feas ; And rude, almoji, as rudeft falvages. And in another place he fays : More dif contents I never had, Since I was born, than here ; Where i have been, andjlill am fad, In this dull Devonjhire. Yet it was during this period of his life that, thrown upon... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1852 - 744 pages
...sacred reliques shall have room: For my embalming, sweetest, there will be Dill. DISCONTENTS IN DEVON. More discontents I never had, Since I was born, than...ne'er invented such Ennobled numbers for the press, Than were I loath'd so much. TO PERILLA. Ah, my Perilla ! dost thou grieve to see Me, day by day, to... | |
 | Henry John Whitfeld - Devon (England) - 1854 - 216 pages
...few. This is what the bard wrote, and these were his impressions of Nature in all her loveliness:— " More discontents I never had, Since I was born, than...been, and still am, sad, In this dull Devonshire." We take a journey to see the abiding-place of a man who thus appreciated it. So sang the Poet of the... | |
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DISCONTENTS IN DEVON. MORE discontents I never had Since I was born than here, Where I have been, and still am sad, In this dull Devonshire... 
