 | William Cowper - 1856 - 512 pages
...lie, Where all good qualities grow sick and die. I praise the Frenchman,* his remark was shrewd*— How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude ! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper—solitude is sweet. Yet neither these delights, nor aught beside, That appetite can ask, or... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 pages
...I praise the Frenchman,1 his remark was shrewd — How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude ! lint grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper — solitude is sweet. Yet neither these delights, nor aught beside, That appetite can ask, or wealth provide, Can save us... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Downing, George William Curtis - 1856 - 650 pages
...praise the Frenchman, his remark was shrewd, — How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude ! But give me still a friend, in my retreat. Whom I may whisper — solitude is sweet. The mistake made by this class, is that of thinking only of the beauty of the scenery where they propose... | |
 | 1858 - 866 pages
...bless the free wind, be he raging or mild, For that beautiful mission of love! How sweet, how parsing sweet, is solitude ! But grant me still a friend in...my retreat, Whom I may whisper, Solitude is sweet. 46 EDITOR'S REPOSITORY. Stripíurt A HOHILT FOR тик NEW TEAR ; OR, THE TRANSIENT AND THE PERMANENT... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1858 - 274 pages
...household fires. LETTEK VII. SOCIAL HOMES, AND BLESSINGS FOE DAILY U8K. How sweet, how passing sweet, la Solitude ! But grant me still a friend In my retreat Whom I may whisper, Solitude Is sweet I down* The good he scorned, Stalked off reluctant, like an 111 used ghost, Not to return. BOBXBT BLAIE.... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Downing - 1858 - 660 pages
...praise the Frenchman, his remark was shrewd, — How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude I SiU give me still a friend, in my retreat, Whom I may whisper — solitude is tweet. The mistake made by this class, is that of thinking only of the beauty of the scenery where... | |
 | Anne Mathews - 1860 - 380 pages
...venison, which were getting ready for him at FOUR. I praise the Frenchman, — his remark was shrewd — " How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude \" But grant...retreat, Whom I may whisper — solitude is sweet ! A Doge, at the court of Louis the Fourteenth, declared that he could see no wonder there equal to... | |
 | Edward Thomas - 1917 - 398 pages
...just as he approved La Bruyere in the passage, " I praise the Frenchman, his remark was shrewd — ' How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude ! But grant...my retreat, Whom I may whisper, Solitude is sweet,' " so he brought out with him something of indoors. He enjoyed a picnic. A moss- or root-house in a... | |
 | Douglas Gordon Crawford - 1919 - 398 pages
...is in it. I like solitude, when I give myself up to it, for the sake of solitude ; nor do I ask for "a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper solitude is sweet." The soul of a walk is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. We take a walk... | |
 | Edward Alsworth Ross - 1920 - 740 pages
...Vol. VII, p. 53. * Ibid., p. 58. resultless proceeding to converse with any one." "Nothing CHAP, x agrees with me like solitude." Schopenhauer thought...who are far above or ahead of their time .are likely ^Oerjd>i to be so neglected, misunderstood, or hawked at that in despair Ecjcction they turn misanthrope... | |
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I praise the Frenchman*, his remark was shrewd—. How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude ! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper — solitude is sweet. 
