 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
 | 1884 - 984 pages
...above." And there is hardly any one familiar with Mr. Cooper who has not heard more times than once: " O happiness ! our being's end and aim ! Good, pleasure,...still which prompts th' eternal sigh, For which we Dear to live or dare to die." " Remember, man, ' the universal cause Acts not by partial but by general... | |
 | Joan Lynne Pataky Kosove - 1977 - 162 pages
...great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all. (I, 267-280).' He insisted on happiness: «Oh happiness! our being's end and aim! / Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: » (Epistle IV, w. 1-2), and charity: In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood, Ronald N. Woods - 1989 - 320 pages
...(see Hicks 1982, 301). 89 Consumer Surplus: The First Hundred Years RB Ekelund Jr. and RF Hebert O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure,...Whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die. ALEXANDER POPE, An Essay on Man Introduction... | |
 | J. Gay Tulip Meeks - 1991 - 190 pages
...as an exciting novelty in the eighteenth century. In a celebrated couplet, Alexander Pope exulted: Oh happiness. Our Being's End and Aim, Good, Pleasure, Ease, Content, Whate'er thy Name. Happiness, bonheur, hailed, it has been said, by the eighteenthcentury philosophers as 'a new word... | |
 | Steven Lukes - 1995 - 284 pages
...calculating in the streets? What, he asked Alexander Pope, is happiness? 'Oh Happiness!' replied Pope, 'our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content!...whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die, Which still so near us, yet beyond us... | |
 | Henry H. Brown - 1996 - 114 pages
...have already found, leads towards the goal. And that goal is happiness. Pope saw this when he said: O Happiness, our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content, whate'er thy name I He solved the problem — the universal goal is Happiness. Man pursues this goal instinctively. Thus... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same. 8907 An Essay on Man Q 7R 5 c J /Ɏ M $a+x-'uB @ th'etemal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die. 8908 An Essay on Man A wit's a feather,... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 772 pages
...progress. II HAPPINESS The present is the Age of Pastime, the Golden Reign of Pleasure SAMUEL FAWCONER1 Oh Happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, Pleasure, Ease, Content! Whate'er thy name ALEXANDER POPE2 What is the pulse of this so busy world? The love of pleasure . . . EDWARD YOUNG3 /will... | |
 | Madan M. Sauldie - 2004 - 269 pages
...this respect, one should recall the words of the great English poet, Alexander Pope (1688-1744): 0' happiness ! Our being's end and aim; Good, pleasure,...eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die. Evidently there is no common denominator for judging happiness, or, for that matter, unhappiness of... | |
 | Jason A. Merchey - 2005 - 321 pages
...end and aim, Good pleasure, ease, content - whate'r thy name, That something, still that prompts the eternal sigh: For which we bear to live, or dare to die. — ALEXANDER POPE Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships,... | |
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