Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content …

Alexander Pope
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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground. ✨ 'Ode on Solitude' (written c.1700, when aged about twelve)
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The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know. ✨ Alexander Pope (1839). The Poetical Works of A. Pope, Esq: With an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, … ▶
But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. ✨ 'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 111
In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast; but strength of mind is exercise, not rest. ✨ Alexander Pope, George Croly (185 … ▶
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As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten lo … ▶

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground. ✨ 'Ode on Solitude' (written c.1700, when aged about twelve)

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