 | Life-lights - 1864 - 336 pages
...WILLIAM O. PEABODY, 1799-1847. — American. CONTENT. A SONNET. SWEET are the thoughts that savour of content : The quiet mind is richer than a crown...scorns Fortune's angry frown. Such sweet content; such mind, such sleep, such bliss, Beggars enjoy when princes oft do miss. The homely house that harbours... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - English poetry - 1867 - 410 pages
...for death, nor fear his might. Earl of Surrey. LXXXI. CONTENT. » SWEET are the thoughts that savour of content : — The quiet mind is richer than a crown...Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bli: Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss. The homely house that harbours quiet rest, The cottage that... | |
 | Frederick Locker- Lampson - 1867 - 380 pages
...wish for death, nor fear his might. Earl of Surrey. LXXX. CONTENT. SWEET are the thoughts that savour of content : — The quiet mind is richer than a crown...: Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss, Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss. The homely house that harbours quiet rest, The cottage... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Anthologies - 1869 - 526 pages
...still grows the more. — PHINEAS FLETCHER (1584—1650). CONTENT. SWEET are the thoughts that savour of content : The quiet mind is richer than a crown...frown. Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss, Beggars enjoy when princes oft do miss. The homely house that harbours quiet rest, The cottage... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - Epigrams - 1870 - 652 pages
...stanza may be given from the " Farewell to Folly " of Robert Greene: Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content ; The quiet mind is richer than a crown...frown. Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss. TO AVARU8 OF BIS ARGUMENT (Ep. 47). When as 1 ask thee... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...picture of genius debased by vice.] CT WKKT are the thoughts that savour of content : *— ' '\'\ve quiet mind is richer than a crown : Sweet are the...frown. Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss, .Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss. The homely house that harbours quiet rest, The cottage... | |
 | Epigrammatists - 1870 - 654 pages
...Farewell to Folly " of Robert Greene : Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content ; The quiet inind is richer than a crown : Sweet are the nights in careless...spent ; The poor estate scorns Fortune's angry frown. Siwli sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do mias. TO... | |
 | Testament (Old) - Bible - 1871 - 504 pages
...not your heart upon them." — Ps. Ixii. 10. C WEET are the thoughts that savour of c"s »J tent ; The quiet mind is richer than a crown ; Sweet are...spent, The poor estate scorns fortune's angry frown. The homely house that harbours quiet rest, The cottage that affords no pride nor care. The mean that... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1872 - 268 pages
...still grows the more. — PHINEAS FLETCHER (1584—1650). CONTENT. SWEET are the thoughts that savour of content : The quiet mind is richer than a crown...frown. Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss, Beggars enjoy when princes oft do miss. The homely house that harbours quiet rest, The cottage... | |
 | Poetry - 1872 - 710 pages
...Thtmuu К1ЪЫе Hcney.. met MINTD. MINX). 3395. MIND, Contentment of. Sweet are the thoughts that savor 1. bliss, Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss. The homely house that harbors quiet rest, The cottage... | |
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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,... 
