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 But health consists with temperance alone ; And peace, oh virtue ! peace... An essay on man. Cornish ed - Seite 78von Alexander Pope - 1798Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Lindley Murray - 1799 - 408 Seiten
...pleafure, all the joys of fenfe, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence : But health'confifts with temperance alone; And peace, O Virtue ! peace is all thy own. Plard emotion. Who can forbear to fmile with nature ? Can The ftorrny pafsions in the bofom roll, While... | |
| 1801 - 446 Seiten
...and unquestionably, the answer will be that nothing can impart to competence the least advantage— " Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, " Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence. An hundred dishes after the novelty has passed, cannot gratify the man who wishes to pamper his appetite,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 Seiten
...Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, 75 And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. Know ail the good that individuals find, Or God and Nature...health consists with temperance alone ; And peace, oh, Virtue ! peace is all thy own. The good or bad the gifts of Fortune gain ; But these less taste... | |
| E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 Seiten
...the vain toil surveys, And huries madmen in the heaps they raise. Know, all the good that individual" find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's...Lie in three words, Health, Peace, and Competence, SWEETNESS. AN ODE. BY Mil. ROBERTSON. Or damask cheeks and radiant eyes, Let other poets tell ; Within... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 Seiten
...the heaps they raise. Know , all the good that individual* find , Or God and Nature meant to mer« mankind , Reason's whole pleasure , all the joys of...in three words , Health , Peace , and Competence. POPS. CHAP. XVI. On Virtue. J\.KOW thou this truth (enough for man to know} a Virtue alone is happiness... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 496 Seiten
...115 Heaven ftil! with laughter ihe vain toil furvtys, 75 And buries madmen in the heaps they raife. Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and Nature meant to mere Mankind, Rcafon's whole pleafure, all the joys of Senfe, Short, and but rare, till Man improv'd it all. We ju(la!... | |
| William Enfield - 1805 - 456 Seiten
...Heav'n ftiil with laughter the vain toil furveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raife. Know, ail the good that individuals find. Or God and Nature meant to mere mankind, Reafon's whole Pleafure, all the joys of Senfe, Lie in three words, Health, Peace, and Competence.... | |
| 1806 - 408 Seiten
...skies ? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and...all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, Health, I'eace, and Competence. But Health consists with Temperance alone, And Peace, oh Virtue ! Peace is... | |
| E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 Seiten
...skies ? Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And huries madmen in the heaps they raise. Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's wide pleasure, all the joys of sense. Lie in three words, Health, Peace, and Competence. SWEETNESS.... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1806 - 474 Seiten
...Heav'n ftill with laughter the vain toil furveys, 75 And buries madmen in the heaps they raife. • Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and Nature meant to mere Mankind, Reafon's COMMENTARY. VER. 67. Fortune her gifts may iiarloujly difpofe, &c. ] Hiajicotul argument (from... | |
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