 My next desire is, void of care and strife, To lead a soft, secure, inglorious life A country cottage near a crystal flood, A winding valley, and a lofty wood. Some god conduct me to the sacred shades, Where Bacchanals are sung by Spartan maids, Or lift...  A Classical Tour Through Italy, An. MDCCCII. - Sayfa 81John Chetwode Eustace tarafından - 1821Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 sayfa
...What shakes the solid earth; what cause delays The summer nights, and shortens winter days. see, 463 To lead a soft, secure, inglorious life — A country cottage near a crystal flood, 690 A winding valley, and a lofty wood. Some god conduct me to the sacred shades Where... | |
 | 1912 - 600 sayfa
...restrain the flight Of my free soul, aspiring to the height Of nature, and unclouded fields of light — My next desire is, void of care and strife, To lead...secure, inglorious life — A country cottage near a crystal flood, A winding valley, and a lofty wood. Some god conduct me to the sacred shades, Where... | |
 | John Keble - 1912 - 544 sayfa
...restrain the flight Of my free soul, aspiring to the height Of Nature, and unclouded fields of light — My next desire is, void of care and strife, To lead a soft, secure, inglorious life.1 It seems to me, I confess, that in these lines the writer has, with his usual subtlety, hinted... | |
 | Richard Llewellyn Jones Llewellyn - 1919 - 802 sayfa
...recognize the work-shy, lest we mistake indolence for patience, and lazy indifference for fortitude. My next desire is, void of care and strife, To lead a soft, secure, inglorious life. DRYDEN Indolence, whether of body or mind, is a vice to be guarded against, and the crippled or maimed... | |
 | George Howe, Gustave Adolphus Harrer - 1924 - 660 sayfa
...restrain the flight Of my free soul, aspiring to the height Of Nature and unclouded fields of light; My next desire is, void of care and strife, To lead...secure, inglorious life: A country cottage near a crystal flood, A winding valley, and a lofty wood. Some god conduct me to the sacred shades, Where... | |
 | Louis Wann - 1926 - 560 sayfa
...ISAAC BICKERSTAFF From No. 89 of the Tatler (Nov. 3, 1709). Motto, from Virgil, Ceorgics, II, 485: "My next desire is, void of care and strife, To lead...secure, inglorious life; A country cottage near a crystal flood, A winding valley and a lofty wood." — Dryden. 138. b. 2. Tom's, a coffee-house in... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 sayfa
...restrain the flight Of my free soul, aspiring to the height Of nature, and unclouded fields of light; My next desire is, void of care and strife, To lead...secure, inglorious life. A country cottage near a crysjal flood, "*t A winding valley, and a lofty wood. Some god conduct me to the sacred shades, Where... | |
 | Diane Kelsey McColley - 2007 - 284 sayfa
...to the Height of Nature, and unclouded Fields of Light" (in Dryden's rather Horation translation), My next Desire is, void of Care and Strife, To lead...a soft, secure, inglorious Life. A country Cottage neare a Crystal Flood, A winding Valley, and a lofty Wood.43 Vergil's simpler original diction fits... | |
 | John Dryden - 2002 - 612 sayfa
...restrain the flight Of my free soul, aspiring to the height Of nature and unclouded fields of light, 50 My next desire is, void of care and strife, To lead...secure, inglorious life. A country cottage near a crystal flood, A winding valley, and a lofty wood. Some god conduct me to the sacred shades 55 Where... | |
 | 1941 - 380 sayfa
...harvest; of relative rest and tranquillity. As Dryden's translation of Vergil's Georgics expresses it: My next desire is, void of care and strife, To lead a soft, secure, inglorious life. The fundamental recipe, therefore, for a contented old age (assuming one attains it) is adaptation... | |
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