Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - 第 358 頁Alexander Pope 著 - 1890 - 550 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
| Margaret Anne Doody, Professor of English Margaret Anne Doody - 1985 - 314 頁
...in a way that Horace's is not. In his youth, Pope once produced a more successful Horatian carmen: Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal...Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. ("Ode on Solitude," lines 1-4)" But this, as he proudly claimed, is a juvenile work. And no poet of... | |
| Stephen M. Pollan, Mark Levine - 1988 - 266 頁
...a home can be a joyous and rewarding experience. CHAPTER TWO REAL ESTATE: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres...Content to breathe his native air In his own ground, ALEXANDER POPE Home ownership is truly as American as apple pie. Nowhere else in the world is it as... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 頁
...the chapel's silver bell you hear. That summons you to all the pride of pray'r: Ode on Solitude 107 (1. 1 —4) 108 Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world,... | |
| Thomas Mellon - 1995 - 544 頁
...Christian feeling and duties. Pope must have had a similar impression regarding rural life when he wrote: Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres...summer yield him shade, In winter fire. Blest, who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days and years slide soft away In health of body, peace of mind, Quiet by... | |
| Colin Nicholson - 1994 - 252 頁
...suggested by comparing the youthfully confident and self-sustaining dispositions of his Ode on Solitude: Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal...Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire 0~8) with Epistle II, ii, first published in 1737.42 There, a monetarised world of values now rendering... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1996 - 876 頁
...bestows on kings. COTTON. CHAPTER IV. DESCRIPTIVE PIECES. SECTION I. The pleasures of retirement. JLlAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres...summer yield him shade, In winter, fire. Blest, who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years, slide soft away, In healdi of body, peace of mind, Quiet... | |
| Tom Turner - 1996 - 262 頁
...life. Rural retreat became both a poetic theme and a garden theme. His Ode on solitude was Horatian: Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres...Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Pope did not see the formal gardens of his day as peaceful forest retreats. His Epistle to Lord Burlington... | |
| Ernst A. Schmidt - 1996 - 500 頁
...same arts that did gain 120 A power must it maintain. 5. Alexander Pope (1700-1709) Ode on Solitude Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres...Content to breathe his native air. In his own ground. 5 Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread. Whose focks supply him with attire, Whose trees in... | |
| Helen Deutsch - 1996 - 300 頁
...equivalent."1" The poem begins with a vision of an independence contained by securely possessed patrimony. Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal...Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. He concludes with a fantasy of retirement and anonymity: 85 RESEMBLANCE AND DISGRACE Thus let me live,... | |
| John Rieder - 1997 - 284 頁
...years" by establishing within her the Horatian self-sufficiency Pope longs for in his "Ode on Solitude:" Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal...Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire. 36 The final verse paragraph of "Tintern Abbey" manages to recapitulate both the economies of sublimation... | |
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