 | William Cowper - 1803 - 310 páginas
...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 wealth provide, Can save us... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 316 páginas
...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 wealth provide, Can save us... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 226 páginas
...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 wealth provide, Can save us... | |
 | William Cowper - 1808 - 330 páginas
...praise the Frenchman,* his remark was How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude 1 But grant rae stHl 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 390 páginas
...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 wealth provide, Can save us... | |
 | William Cowper - 1817 - 234 páginas
...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 wealth provide, Can save ns... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 páginas
...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 wealth provide, Can save us... | |
 | William Cowper - 1821 - 556 páginas
...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 wealth provide, Can save us... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 314 páginas
...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 wealth provide, Can save us... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 594 páginas
...watering-places, and carry the metropolis with them. I like more elbow-room, and fewer incumbrances. I like solitude, when I give myself up to it, for the sake of solitude ; nor do I ask for " a friend in ray retreat, Whom I may whisper solitude is sweet." The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty,... | |
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I am not for criticising hedgerows and black cattle. I go out of town in order to forget the town and all that is in it. There are those who for this purpose go to wateringplaces, and carry the metropolis with them. 
