 | Richard Hayman - 2003 - 300 trang
...than the envious Court? Even the adverse conditions of winter can be borne as the wind and the cold feelingly persuade me what I am: Sweet are the uses...precious jewel in his head: And this our life exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks Sermons in stone, and good in every... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2005 - 900 trang
...body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say 'This is no flattery: these are counsellors 10 That feelingly persuade me what I am. ' Sweet are...jewel in his head: And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every... | |
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Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp ? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons' difference ; as, the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's... 
