 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 merit constant pay receives, Is...  Essai sur l'homme - Pagina 76door Alexander Pope - 1850 - 82 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Martin M'Dermot, Martin MacDermot - 1824 - 430 pagina’s
...virtues, (formidable name !) What but the fountain or defence of joy ? The following is from Pope. Know then this truth, (enough for man to know,) Virtue...still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill. The broadest mirth, unfeeling folly wears, Less pleasing far than virtue's very tears. • See the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 430 pagina’s
...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 ; COMMENTARY. Ver. 309. Know then this truth, #c.] Having thus at length shewn that Happiness consists... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pagina’s
...happiness consists in virtue, by shewing, that it did not consist in any thing else NOTES. Ver. 309. Know then this truth (enough for Man to know) " Virtue alone is happiness below."] M. Du Resnel translates the lines thus : " Appren done, qu'il n'est point ici bas de bonheur, Si la... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 424 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; COMMENTARY.... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 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) , '...to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives, Is bless'd in what it takes and what it gives ; The joy unequall'd if its end it gain, And, if it lose,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pagina’s
...the day ; The whole amount of that enormous fame, A tale, that blends their glory with their shanu ! n for Thomas Tegg eonstant pay reeeives, Is blest in what it takes, and what it gives ; The joy unequal'd, if its end... | |
 | 1915 - 1068 pagina’s
...me of that which benefits him nothing, but which makes me poor indeed." Alexander Pope adds another: "Know then this truth, enough for man to know, Virtue alone is happiness below." There Is joy in life. We live, we move, we have our being. We enter life helpless and Innocent, unconscious... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 pagina’s
...invade, And haunt their slumbers in the pompous shade. Alas ! not dazzled with their noon-tide ray, 305 Compute the morn and ev'ning to the day; The whole...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... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson - 1984 - 1572 pagina’s
...things for such occasions. You must not pitch your flight higher than the pennywhistle elevation of s of a devo Either this, or declamatory verse, — or something patriodc, or something satirical, or something... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pagina’s
...in others' breath, (Fr. Epistle IV) 85 An honest man's the noblest work of God. (Fr. Epistle IV) 86 . (Fr. Epistle IV) NU The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace 87 There are (I scarce can think... | |
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