| Montgomery Robert Bartlett - 1827 - 274 pagina’s
...collateral fact, is brought into the body of a sentence, it is enclosed in parenthetic lines. Thus: Know then this truth, (enough for man to know,) Virtue alone is happiness below. He loves nobody, (I speak of friendship,) who is not jealous when he has partners in love. Know ye... | |
| 1827 - 290 pagina’s
...wife, The trophy'd arches, story'd halls invade, And haunt their slumbers in the pompous shade. . ***** Know then this truth, (enough for man to know) ' Virtue alone is happiness below.' The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where... | |
| C D. Golland, Mrs. C. D. Haynes Golland - 1827 - 594 pagina’s
...consists only in the practice of virtue ; and now, to dismiss the subject, in the words of the poet — ' Know then, this truth, enough for man to know, , Virtue alone is happiness below." As the hour was now getting late, he I 3 did not resume his reading, and the conversation became more... | |
| William Enfield - 1827 - 412 pagina’s
...Sense, Lie iu three words, Health, Peace, and Competence. - . CHAP. XVI. • ON VIRTUE. JVNOW thou this truth, enough for man to know, " Virtue alone is Happiness below :" The only point where human bliss stands still - .^ And tastes the good without the fall to ill ;... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1828 - 128 pagina’s
...Exclamation point ! y.) The Parenthesis ( ) ; as, " Are you sincere 7" " How excellent is a grateful heart !" "Know then this truth, (enough for man to know,} " Virtue alone is happiness below." The following characters are also frequently used in composition. An Apostrophe, marked thus ' ; as,... | |
| 1828 - 488 pagina’s
...opinion, that virtue was the summum lonu.m of man ; and this has been adopted by Pope : — " KDOW thou this truth, enough for man to know, Virtue alone is happiness below." It is its own reward in this life, by the tranquillity of mind and the general esteem which are annexed... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pagina’s
...day ; The whole amount of that enormous fame, A tale, that blends their glory witli their shame ! t breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where... | |
| Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 pagina’s
...the day; The whole amount of that enormous fame, A tale, that blends their glory with their shame! 41 Know then this truth (enough for man to know) " Virtue alone is happiness below." The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill; Where only... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pagina’s
...rest is all but leather or pnmello. {From An Essay on Man.] VIRTUE, THE SOLE UXFAILIXG HAPI'lXESS. KNOW then this truth (enough for man to know), " Virtue alone is happiness below." The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill; [ceives,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1832 - 86 pagina’s
...the day ; The whole amount of that enormous fame, A tale, that blends their glory with their shame ! Know then this truth (enough for man to know) * Virtue alone is happiness below." 310 The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where... | |
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