...die. I praise the Frenchman,* his remark was shrewd — How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude ! 740 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...

...incumbrnnccs. I like solitude, when I give myself up to it, for the sake of solitude ; nor do I ask for " a friend in my retreat. Whom I may whisper solitude is sweet." The soul of a journey is liberty; perfect liberty, to think, frei, do just as one pleases. We go a...

...lie, Where all good qualities grow sicTt and die. I praise the Frenchman,* his remark was shrewd — How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude ! But grant...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...

...Sorajpore. Though both delighted in solitude, they each acknowledged the truth of the poet's aphorism, ' Yet grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper — solitude 'is sweet.1 Gregory had only one scruple against the acceptance of the kind proposal — the previous invitation...

...the author of " Then asked I what of Rome," &c. FLS I praise the Frenchman ; his remark was shrewd, How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude ! But grant...my retreat, Whom I may whisper, Solitude is sweet. Who is the Frenchman alluded to Î and whence the quatrain ? JOHN PICKFORD, MA [The quatrain is from...

...in my memory ever siure I was at school ; but the other two have slipped out of it, P. t Bniyere. i 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...

...14 (Vol. 2, p. 298), where it is described." ' " I praise the Frenchman ; his remark was shrewd, — How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude ! But grant...retreat, Whom I may whisper,— Solitude is sweet ! " Cowr-ER, Retirement. — ,!. WW xvi. " Berkeley had a guinea and a dinner with Steele, for every...

...by the date, 1797, we presume he means the " Lines I praise the Frenchman — his remark was shrewd, How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude ; But grant...retreat, Whom I may whisper — solitude is sweet. F. 26. Of that genuine though neglected poet, BampfyUe,^ a very interesting notice occurs, which, however,...

...lie, Where all good qualities grow sick and die. I praise the Frenchman,* his remark was shrewd — How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude ! But grant...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...

...lie, Where all good qualities grow sick and die. I praise the Frenchman,* his remark was shrewd — N O P , Yet neither these delights, nor aught beside, That appetite can ask, or wealth provide, Can save us...