"Unenvied" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... description. His topics of praise are the domestic virtues, and his thoughts are pure and simple, but wanting combination; they want variety. The peace of solitude, the innocence of inactivity, and the unenvied security of an humble station, can fill but a few pages. That of which the essence is uniformity will be soon described. His elegies have, therefore, too much resemblance of each other. The lines ...
— Lives of the Poets: Gay, Thomson, Young, and Others • Samuel Johnson
... industry and sweat: Nor with vain promises and projects cheat, Nor bribe or flatter any of the great. But you're a man of learning, prudent, just: A man of courage, firm, and fit for trust. Why, you may stay, and live unenvied here; But, 'faith! go back, and keep you ...
— Cowley's Essays • Abraham Cowley |
