 | John Aikin - 1821 - 402 Seiten
...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, and contentment these : Some, sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain ; Some, swell'd to gods, confess ev'n virtue vain... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 278 Seiten
...Ask of the learn'd the way. The learn'd are blind 5 This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind ; Some place the bliss in action, some in ease ; Those call' it pleasure, arid contentment these « Some sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain ; Some swell'd to gods, confess... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 368 Seiten
...of the Learn'd the way 1 The Learn 'd are blind ; This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind ; 20 Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it Pleasure, and Contentment these ; Some sunk to Beasts, find pleasure end in pain ; Some swell 'd to Gods, confess ev'n Virtue vain... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 Seiten
...Ask of the Learn'd the way? The Learn'd are blind ; This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind ; 20 Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it Pleasure, and Contentment these ; Some sunk to Beasts, find pleasure end in pain ; Some swell'd to Gods, confess ev'n Virtue vain !... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 Seiten
...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, and contentment these: Some sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain ; Some swell'd to gods, confess e'en virtue vain! Or... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - 322 Seiten
...8. 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, and contentment these: Some sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain; Some swell'd to gods, confess ev'n virtue vain; Or... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1822 - 246 Seiten
...[self love] its object would devour, This [reason] taste the honey and not wound the flower." Pope. " Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these, ibm. The poets sometimes contrast these .substitutes in a similar manner, to denote individuals acting-... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 Seiten
...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, and Contentment these : Some, sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain, Some, swell'd to Gods, confess ev'n Virtue vain... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 Seiten
...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, and contentment these." They differed as well in the means, as in the nature of the end. Some placed Happiness in Action, some... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 84 Seiten
...of the learn'd the way ? The learn'd are blind ; This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind ; 20 Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these ; Some, sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain ; Som.-, swell'd to gods, confess e'en virtue Tain;... | |
| |
Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it Pleasure, and Contentment these... 
