 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 252 pages
...page où se lit leur honte et leur grandeur. VII. Know then this truth (enough for Man to know) <t Virtue alone is Happiness below. » The only point...fall to ill ; Where only Merit constant pay receives , Is blest in what it takes , and what it gives ; The joy unequal'd , if its end it gain , And if it... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 268 pages
...blends their glory with their shame ! VII. Know then this truth : (enoughforMan to know) « Yirtue alone is Happiness below. » / The only point where...fall to ill ; Where only Merit constant pay receives, Is blest in what it takes, and what it gires, The joy unequall'd, if its end it gain, And if it lose,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 356 pages
...an earnest of happiness hereafter. "Know then this truth, (enough for man to know,) Virtue alone it happiness below : , . The only point where human bliss...fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives, Is blesn'd in what it takes, and what it gives ; The joy uneqiiail'd, if its end it gain, , And if... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 86 pages
...morn and evening to 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 324 pages
...lives may correspond to it; and that your happiness here, may be an earnest of happiness hereafter. " Know then this truth, (enough for man to know,) Virtue alone is happiness helow ; The only point where human bliss stands still -5 And tastes the good, without the fall to ill:... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 pages
...morn and evening to the day; The whole amount of that enormous fame, A tale that blends their glory with their shame! Know then this truth (enough for...fall 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,... | |
 | John Platts - 1822 - 844 pages
...supremely fair ! Pope, in his Essay on Man, thus asserts the connection between Virtue and Happiness : — Know then this truth, (enough for man to know,) "...fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives, Is blest in what it takes, and what it gives ; The joy unequall'd, if its end it gain, And if it lose,... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1822 - 594 pages
...glorious distinction, by which the author of the Essay on Man would characterize it, of being what " alone is happiness below." The only point, where human...bliss stands still, And tastes the good, without the Pall to ill ; Where only Merit constant pay receives, Is blest, in what it takes and what it gives... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 pages
...morn and ev'ning to 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 ; NOTES.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 368 pages
...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 ; cule his sorrow on the death of his only son, the Marquis of Blandford. The Duke having a very effeminate... | |
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