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 - Seite 76von Alexander Pope - 1850 - 82 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Alexander Pope - 1821 - 268 Seiten
...blends their glory with their shame ! VII. Know then this truth : (enoughforMan to know) « Yirtue alone is Happiness below. » / The only point where...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, attended with no pain : "Without satiety,... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 402 Seiten
...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.'...still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill j Where only merit constant pay receives, IB blest in what it takes, and what it gives ; The joy unequali'd,... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1821 - 356 Seiten
...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...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 it... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1821 - 86 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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:... | |
| 1822 - 284 Seiten
...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...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,... | |
| Thomas Brown - 1822 - 594 Seiten
...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 - 368 Seiten
...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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 372 Seiten
...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.... | |
| Allen Fisk - 1822 - 192 Seiten
...speak to them, Ihat know tbe Ian,) bow that Ibe law batb dominion over a man as long as he liveib i" ' Know then this truth, (enough for man to know,) ' Virtue alone is happiness below.' ' And was the ransom paid ? It was ; and paid ' (What can exalt his bounty more ?) for th e.' If the... | |
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