OH happiness ! our being's end and aim ! Good, pleasure, ease, content ? whate'er thy name : That something still which prompts th' eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die, Which still so near us, yet beyond us lies, O'er-look'd, seen... The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections, Additions ... - Page 64by Alexander Pope - 1804 - 754 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Enfield - 1827 - 412 pages
...link'd the gen'ral frame, And bade Self-love and Social be the same. . CHAP. XV. t ON HAPPINESS. O HAPPINESS ! our being's end and aim ! Good, Pleasure,...die ; Which still so near us, yet beyond us lies, O'erlook'd, seen double, by the fool, and wise; Plant of celestial seed ! if dropp'd below, Say, in... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1827 - 262 pages
...SECTION III. The road to happiness opento all men. OH happiness* ! our being's end' and ainV ! GooiT, pleasure*, ease*, content' ! whate'er thy name' ;...bear to live', or dare to die* : Which still so near us',yet beyond us lies* ; O'erlook'd*, seen double', by the fool' and wise* ; Plant of celestial seed',... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1827 - 308 pages
...suffice To make men moral, good, and wise." GAT. SECTION II. The road to happiness open to all men. 1. OH happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure,...still which prompts th' eternal sigh, For which we beaj to live, or dare to die : Which still so near us, yet beyond us lies, . -. O'erlook'd, se"n double,... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1827 - 258 pages
...suftice To make men moral, good, and wise."— OAT. SECTION in. Tlie road to happiness open to all mc». OH happiness ! our being's end and aim ! Good, pleasure,...whate'er thy name; That something still which prompts ttf eternal sigh, For which we Bear to live, or dare to die : Which still so near us, yet beyond us... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1827 - 276 pages
...open to all men. 1. OH happiness ! our being's end and aim ! Good, pleasure, ease, content! vvhate'er thy name: That something still which prompts th' eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to dLe : Which still so near us, yet beyond us^les, O'erlook'd, seen double, by the fool and wise ; Plant... | |
| Legacy - 1827 - 332 pages
...author, he, with the facility acquired by habit and a good ear, converted it into the distich ;: , •' Oh, Happiness ! — our being's end and aim, Good, Pleasure, Ease, Content, whate'er thy name ;" the reading of which, in contrast with the prose, affects the imagination as well as the understanding,... | |
| James Ewell - 1827 - 868 pages
...and aim, Good, Pleasure, Ease, Content, whato'cr thy name: That something still, which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die." fort: HOPE is the anticipation of joy, ortjl presentiment of an expected good. It is attended with... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1828 - 252 pages
...make men moral, good , and wise."—GAY. SECTION III. The Road to Hafifiincss oflen to all Men. 1. OH happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure,...to die: Which still so near us, yet beyond us lies; O'erlook'd, seen double, by the fool and wise; D lant of celestial seed, if dropt below, »y, in what... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1828 - 262 pages
...make men moral , good , and wise." — GAY. SECTION III. The Road to Hafifiiness ofien to all Men. 1. OH happiness ! our being's end and aim ! Good , pleasure...something still which prompts th' eternal sigh For _which we bear to live , or dare to die : Which still so near us , yet beyond us lies; O'erlook'd ,... | |
| Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1829 - 318 pages
...To make men moral, Rood, a rid wise.**" OAT | SECTION 11. The road to happiness open to all men. "J. OH happiness! our being's end and aim ! Good, pleasure,...ease, content ! Whate'er thy name ; That something stil! which prompts tli' eternal sigh., For which wo bear to live, or dare to die : Which still so... | |
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