“Here sweet Meads, cool Fountains be,
Here Groves where I could spend my Age with thee.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Bucolicks
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“You could spend a lifetime reading in here.”
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
The London Literary Gazette (10th January 1835) Versions from the German (Second Series.) 'Pauline's Price'— Goethe.
Translations, From the German
“It was here [at the age of seventeen] that I suspended my religious inquiries.”
Memoirs (1796)
America, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“As the people here grow colder I turn to my computer
And spend my evenings with it
Like a friend.”
Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)
“Fountain heads and pathless groves,
Places which pale passion loves.”
The Nice Valour (c. 1615–25; publsihed 1647), Act iii, scene 3.
Book ii. Stanza 17.
The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius (1771)
"Messenger"
Variant: My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird — equal seekers of sweetness
Source: Thirst (2006)