Parnassian laurels yield, Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? Where grows? where grows it not ? if vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. Essai sur l'homme - Seite 82von Alexander Pope - 1762 - 116 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 372 Seiten
...culture, not the soil : Fix'd to no spot is happiness sincere, 15 Tis no where to be found, or every where : Tis never to be bought, but always free, And fled from Monarchs, ST. JOHN ! dwells with thee. NOTES. So Horace also in Epist. xviii. b. 1 . " jEquum mJ animum ipse parabo." " But Horace," says... | |
| 1822 - 284 Seiten
...to be found, or every where: Tis never to be bought, but always free, Andfledfrom monarchs, St.John! dwells with thee. Ask of the learn'd the way ? the learn'd are blind; This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind; Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure,... | |
| William Enfield - 1823 - 412 Seiten
...our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil : Fix'd to no spot is happiness sincere, Tis no where to be found, or ev'ry where ; Tis never to...Learn'd the way, the Learn'd are blind ':. This bids- to serve, and that to shun mankind : Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it Pleasure,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 430 Seiten
...culture, not the soil. Fix'd to no spot is Happiness sincere ; 15 'Tis no where to be found, or every where ; 'Tis never to be bought, but always free,...learn'd the way ? The learn'd are blind; This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind; 20 COMMENTARY. Fair op'ning to some Court's propitious shine, Or... | |
| Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 Seiten
...our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil: Fix'd to no spot is happiness sincere, 'Tis no where to be found, or ev'ry where: 'Tis never to...And, fled from monarchs, St. John! dwells with thee. 3 Ask of the learn 'd the way? The learn 'd are blind: This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind;... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 80 Seiten
...We ought to blame the culture, not the soil : Fix'd to no spot is happiness sincere, 15 'Tis nowhere to be found, or ev'ry where : 'Tis never to be bought,...free, And, fled from monarchs, St. John ! dwells with t lice. Ask of the learn'd the way ? The learn'd are blind ; This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 424 Seiten
...at all contradict what he had said to him concerning Happiness, in the beginning of the Epistle : " Tis never to be bought, but always free, And fled from monarchs, St. John ! dwells with thee." For there he compliments his virtue ; here he estimates the value of his politics, which he calls wisdom.... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 Seiten
...at all contradict what he had said to him concerning Happiness, in the beginning of the Epistle : " Tis never to be bought, but always free, And fled from monarchs, St. John ! dwells with thee." For there he compliments his virtue ; here he estimates the value of his politics, which he calls wisdom.... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 84 Seiten
...We ought to blame the culture, not the soil : Fix'd to no spot is happiness sincere, 15 'Tis nowhere to be found, or ev'ry where 'Tis never to be bought, but always free, AnJ, fled from monarch.*, St. John ! dwells with thee. Ask of the learn'd the way ? The learn'd are... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 Seiten
...sincere, Tis no where to be found, or every where : 'Tis never to be bought, but always free, And Bed n with furious pace, And hap to break thee from a friend's embrace, Sto Thelearn'dare blind: This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind ; Some place the bliss in action,... | |
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