 Compensating his loss with added hours Of social converse and instructive ease, And gathering, at short notice, in one group The family dispersed, and fixing thought, Not less dispersed by day-light and its cares. I crown thee king of intimate delights,...  The Papaw Thicket - Page 52by Paul Griswold Huston - 1906Full view - About this book
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 300 pages
...day-light and its cares. I crown thee King of intimate delights, Fire-side enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts, that the lowly roof Of undisturbed...and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know. No rattling wheels stop short before these gates; No powdered pert proficient in the art . : Of sounding... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1806 - 234 pages
...day-light and its cares. I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fire-side enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts, that the lowly roof Of undisturbed...and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know. No rattling wheels stop short before these gates ; No powdered pert proficient in the art Of sounding... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1809 - 612 pages
...day-light and it* cares; I crown thee king of intimate delights. Fire-side enjoyments, home-born hapSiinew, the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturbed retirement,...and the hours Of long, uninterrupted evening know." Yes there are amusements to be found, without having recourse to noisy, public dissipations, in which... | |
 | William Cowper - Poets, English - 1821 - 556 pages
...day-light and its cares. I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fire-side enjoyment, home born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturbed retirement, and the hours Of long uninterupteu evening, know. No rattling wheels stop short before these gates ; No powdered pert proficient... | |
 | 206 pages
...as thon art. -- I crown thee King of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, bomcborn happiness, Ami all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturbed...and the hours Of long, uninterrupted evening, know." There is, then, a cordiality in frost and snow; it sorely softens down the asperity of our nature,... | |
 | 1822 - 588 pages
...•••*••• I crown thec King of intimate delights, Fire-side enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturbed retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evenings, know •"•••• When we may dwelt on " themes of graver tone, Exerting oft our gratitude... | |
 | Tracts - 1831 - 348 pages
...dispose us to find delight in 'Fireside enjoyments, home horn happiness, And all the comforts, which the lowly roof Of undisturbed retirement, and the hours Of long, uninterrupted evening know.' That which constitutes our chief and permanent happiness must reside in the heart; for we have no other... | |
 | 1828 - 488 pages
...intimate delights, Fire-side enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lonely roof Of undisturbed retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening know." That intimate, amusing, instructive, and protracted intercourse with agreeable friends, comfortable... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...daylight and its cares. I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, homcborn happiness, And all the comforts, that the lowly roof Of undisturbed Retirement, and the hours Df long uninterrupted evening, know. No rattling wheels stop short before these gates ; No powdered... | |
 | William Jay - Christian life - 1834 - 330 pages
...cares — — I crown thee king of ultimate delights, Fire-side enjoyments, home-born happiness, • And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturbed...and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening know." Yes, there are amusements to be found, without having recourse to noisy, public dissipations, in which... | |
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