 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, such sleep, such bliss, Beggars enjoy,...  Reuben Apsley - Page 233by Horace Smith - 1827Full view - About this book
 | English poets - 1801 - 382 pages
...is to be found in Berkenhout's " Bio•' graphia Literaria." [From his " Farewell to Folly," 1617.] SWEET are the thoughts that savour of content; The...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 - English poetry - 1811 - 482 pages
...to be found in B*rItenhout's " Biographia Literaria." SONG. [From his " Farewell to Folly," 1617.] SWEET are the thoughts that savour of content ; The...such bliss, Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss. The homely house that harbours quiet rest, The cottage that affords no pride nor care, The mean, that... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1811 - 472 pages
...be found in Berkenhoufs " Biographia Literaria." SONG. [From his " Farewell to Folly," 1617.] QWEET are the thoughts that savour of content ; The quiet...frown. Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such The homely house that harbours quiet rest, The cottage that affords no pride nor care, The mean, that... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1811 - 470 pages
...be found in Berkenhout's " Biographia Literaria." SONG. [From his " Farewell to Folly," 1617.^ OWEET are the thoughts that savour of content ; The quiet...frown. Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such The homely house that harbours quiet rest, The cottage that affords no pride nor care, The mean, that... | |
 | England - 1838 - 884 pages
...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...such bliss Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss. " The homely house that harbours quiet rest, The cottage that alTorda no pride nor care, The mean that... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1827 - 1150 pages
...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...frown. Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bli». Beeirars enjoy when princes oft do miss." ROBLRV Gum. " THIS little bit of a scrape wfll be... | |
 | Robert Greene, Alexander Dyce - 1831 - 338 pages
...steps; In fine, a piece despite of beauty fram'd, To see what Nature's cunning could afford. SONG. SWEET are the thoughts that savour of content ; The...such bliss, Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss. * This is an alteration and abridgement of a copy of verses in the Morando: see p. 215. t were] The... | |
 | Robert Greene, Alexander Dyce - 1831 - 340 pages
...steps; In fine, a piece despite of beauty fram'd, To see what Nature's cunning could afford. SONG. SWEET are the thoughts that savour of content; The...such bliss, Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss. * This is an alteration and abridgement of a copy of verses in the Morando : seep. 215. t were] The... | |
 | Robert Greene, Alexander Dyce - 1831 - 340 pages
...steps; In fine, a piece despite of beauty fram'd, To see what Nature's cunning could afford. SONG. SWEET are the thoughts that savour of content ; The...spent ; The poor estate scorns fortune's angry frown : Suchsweetcontent, such minds, such sleep, such bliss, Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss. *... | |
 | Thomas Oliphant - Ballads, English - 1837 - 374 pages
...Music by Michael Cavendish, the composer of one of the Madrigals in the Triumphs of Oriana. CCCLXXIV. Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content, The...sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss Peasants enjoy, when princes oft do miss. I have adapted these lines, which are from Greene's " Farewell... | |
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