 | William Lee Richardson, Jesse M. Owen - 1922 - 544 pages
...translated by Dryden : "Easy quiet, a secure retreat, A harmless life that knows not how to cheat, With home-bred plenty, the rich owner bless ; And rural pleasures crown his happiness. Unvex'd with quarrels, undisturb'd with noise, The country king his peaceful realm enjoys — 1 Translation... | |
 | George Howe, Gustave Adolphus Harrer - 1924 - 660 pages
...sweetness of his oil. But easy quiet, a secure retreat, A harmless life that knows not how to cheat, With homebred plenty the rich owner bless, And rural pleasures crown his happiness. Unvex'd with quarrels, undisturb'd with noise, The country king his peaceful realm enjoys: Cool grots,... | |
 | John Sitter - 2001 - 322 pages
...Visitants . . . But easie Quiet, a secure Retreat, A harmless Life that knows not how to cheat, With homebred Plenty the rich Owner bless, And rural Pleasures crown his Happiness. (n, lines 639-58) Dryden's translation (1697) and Joseph Warton's (1753), made Virgil an example for... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 pages
...sweetness of his oil: But easy quiet, a secure retreat, A harmless life that knows not how to cheat, With home-bred plenty, the rich owner bless, And rural...noise, The country king his peaceful realm enjoys, 660 Cool grots, and living lakes, the flowery pride Of meads, and streams that through the valley glide,... | |
 | Indiana Horticultural Society - 1892 - 256 pages
...description — " Here easy quiet, a secure retreat, A harmless life that knows not how to cheat, With home-bred plenty the rich owner bless, And rural pleasures...noise, The country king his peaceful realm enjoys. Cool grotto and living lakes, the flowing pride Of meads and streams that through the valley glide, And... | |
 | John Dryden - 2002 - 612 pages
...retreat, A harmless life that knows not how to cheat, With homebred plenty the rich owner bless, 20 And rural pleasures crown his happiness. Unvexed with...peaceful realm enjoys: Cool grots and living lakes, the flow'ry pride Of meads, and streams that through the valley glide, 25 And shady groves that easy sleep... | |
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But easy quiet, a secure retreat, A harmless life that knows not how to cheat With home-bred plenty, the rich owner bless ; And rural pleasures crown his happiness. 
