 | Lindley Murray - 1828 - 214 Seiten
...hearts on thoe« virtuous attainments, which the world can neither give nor take away. D 26 EXERCISES. POETRY. Order is heaven's first law; and this confest,...nought precious is obtain'd, But what is painful too; By travel and to travel born, Our sabbaths are but few. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, .Or... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1828 - 268 Seiten
...which the world can neither give nor take away. POETRY. Order is Heav'n's first law; and this contest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More...health consists with temperance alone ; And peace, Oh virtue! peace is all thy own. On earth, nought precious is obtain'd, But what is painful too ; By... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1828 - 128 Seiten
...those virtuous attainments, which the world can neither give nor take away. VERSE. Order is Heav'n's first law ; and this confest, Some are, and must be,...Lie in three words ; health, peace, and competence I But health consists with temperance alone ; On earth, nought precious is obtain'd, But what is painful... | |
 | George Daniel, John Cumberland - 1828 - 346 Seiten
...each other company. How exactly does this good old roan illustrate the beautiful lines of Pope — ** Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie...health consists with temperance alone, And peace, Oh, Virtue ! peace is all thy own!" An example of the corrupting influence of dissipation ii Plethora,... | |
 | Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg - 1913 - 456 Seiten
...glory and the pomp of Greek literature, Greek eloquence, Greek wisdom, Greek art. — De Quincey. 6. Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, lie...in three words — health, peace, and competence. — Pope. 7.* Extreme admiration puts out the critic's eye. —• Tyler. 8. The setting of a great... | |
 | Alma Blount, Clark Sutherland Northup - 1914 - 400 Seiten
...Rienzi iv. 6. 84. 'Tis Jove's world- wandering herald, Mercury. — SHELLEY, Prometheus i. 325. 85. Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence. — POPE, Essay on Man iv. 79-80. 86. Alfred's name, the father of his age. — COWPER. 87. But not... | |
 | 1915 - 390 Seiten
...literary genius was not much of a mathematician, but he did draw a literary triangle when he says: "Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie...in three words — health, peace, and competence." Goldsmith, following the same trend of thought, says: "Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that... | |
 | Charles Alphonso Smith, Lida Brown McMurry - 1919 - 280 Seiten
...purpose of explanation. The appositive is said to be in apposition with its antecedent. EXERCISES I 1. Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie...in three words, — health, peace, and competence. — POPE : Essay on Man. 2. Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1921 - 506 Seiten
...heaps they raise. Know all the good that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind. Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie...alone; And peace, O virtue ! peace is all thy own. The good or bad the gifts of fortune gain ; But these less taste them as they worse obtain. Say, in... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 Seiten
...hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise. POPE— Essay on Man. Ep. II. L. 123. 13 POPE— Essay on Man. Ep. IV. L. 79. 14 The little pleasure of the game Is from afar to view the flight.... | |
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Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, ^all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence. 
