 | James Beattie, Thomas Gray - 1809 - 408 Seiten
...tho' oft with dust and sweat besprent, Did guide and guard their wanderings, wheresoe'erthey went. 13. from labour health, from health contentment springs. Contentment opes the source of every joy. He envy'd not, he never thought of kings : Nor from those appetites sustain'd annoy, * There is hardly... | |
 | James Beattie, Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - 308 Seiten
...though oft with dust and sweat besprent, Did guide and guard their wanderings, wheresoe'er they went. From labour health, from health contentment springs: Contentment opes the source of every joy. * There is hardly an ancient ballad, or romance, wherein a Minstrel or a Harper appears, but he is... | |
 | James Beattie - 1816 - 242 Seiten
...XIII. From labour health, from health contentment Contentment opes the source of every joy. [springs : He envied not, he never thought of, kings ; Nor from...: Nor Fate his calm and humble hopes beguiled ; He mourned no recreant friend, nor mistress coy, For on his vows the blameless Phosbe smiled, And her... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 466 Seiten
...and sweat besprent, Did guide and guard their wanderings, wheresoe'er they went. From labourhealth, from health contentment springs: Contentment opes...indulgence cloy : Nor Fate his calm and humble hopes beguil'd ; He mourned no recreant friend, nor mistress coy, For on his vows the blameless Phcebe smiled,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 278 Seiten
...though oft with dust and sweat besprent, Did guide and guard their wanderings, wheresoe'er they went. From labour health, from health contentment springs...annoy, That chance may frustrate, or indulgence cloy i Nor Fate his calm and humble hopes beguiled ; He mourned no recreant friend, nor mistress coy, For... | |
 | 1821 - 270 Seiten
...tho' oft with dust and sweat besprent, Did guide and guard their wanderings, wheresoe'cr they went. From labour health, from health contentment springs,...kings : Nor from those appetites sustain'd annoy, Which chance may frustrate or indulgence cloy ; Nor fate his calm and humble hopes beguil'd ; He mourn'd... | |
 | James Beattie - 1821 - 230 Seiten
...source of every joy. He envied not, he never thought of kings; Nor from those appetites sustained unnoy, That chance may frustrate or indulgence cloy; Nor Fate his calm and humble hopes beguiled ; He mourned no recreant friend, nor mistress coy, For on his vows the blameless Pho,be smiled, And her... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 Seiten
...of wealth E'er win its way to thy corrupted heart ; For, ah ! it poisons like the scorpion's dart. From labour health, from health contentment springs ; Contentment opes the source of every joy. His heart, from cruel sport estranged, would bleed To work the woe of any living thing. And from the... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 560 Seiten
...their wanderings, whcresoe'er they went. XIII. [springs, from labour health, from health contentment Contentment opes the source of every joy : He envied...indulgence cloy : Nor Fate his calm and humble hopes bcguil't! ; He mourn'd no recreant friend, nor mistress coy, For on his vows the blameless Phoebe smil'd,... | |
 | 1823 - 494 Seiten
...serves the altar, in my soul I loathe All affectation." Goldsmith will tell you that "From labour is health, from health, contentment springs, Contentment opes the source of every joy." And after toiling for the public good, and exposing yourself to public applause or censure, you can,... | |
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An honest heart was almost all his stock; His drink the living water from the rock: The milky dams supplied his board, and lent Their kindly fleece to baffle winter's shock ; And he, though oft with dust and sweat besprent, Did guide and guard their wanderings,... 
