 | William Cowper - 1803 - Počet stránok 310
...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 - Počet stránok 316
...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 - Počet stránok 226
...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 - Počet stránok 330
...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 - Počet stránok 390
...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 - Počet stránok 234
...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 - Počet stránok 510
...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 - Počet stránok 556
...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 - Počet stránok 314
...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 - Počet stránok 594
...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. 
