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" The learn'd is happy nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty given, The poor contents him with the care of Heaven. "
An Essay on Man - Page 54
by Alexander Pope - 1763 - 124 pages
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An essay on man [by A. Pope]. With some humourous verses on the death of ...

Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1736 - 64 pages
...the Pajpon, Knowledge, Fame, or Pelf, Not one will change his Neighbour with himfelf. The Learn'd are happy, Nature to explore ; The Fool is happy, that he knows no more ; The Rich are happy in the Plenty given ; The Poor contents him with the Care of Heaven. See ! the blind Beggar...
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Alexander Pope, Esq, Volume 2

William Ayre, Edmund Curll - Poets, English - 1745 - 426 pages
...or Acquirement upon which each values himfelf, and builds up a Sort of Happinefs : The Learn'd are happy, Nature to explore ; The Fool is happy, that he knows no more, The Rich are happy in the Plenty giv'n : The Poor contents him with the Care of Heaven. See the blind Beggar...
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Moral essays

Alexander Pope - 1751 - 374 pages
...poet has with great elegance concluded his defcription with the fame figure with which he fet out. The learn'd is happy nature to explore, The fool is...of Heav'n. See the blind beggar dance, the cripple ling, The fot a hero, lunatic a king ; The flarving chemift in his golden views Supremely bleft, the...
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The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 274 pages
...260 Whate'er the Paffion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbour with himfelf. The learn'd is happy nature to explore, . The fool...of Heav'n. See the blind beggar dance, the cripple fmg, The fot a hero, lunatic a king ; The ftarving chemift in his golden views Supremely bleft, the...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Moral essays

Alexander Pope - 1751 - 272 pages
...260 Whate'er the Paffion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbour with himfelf. The learn'd is happy nature to explore, The fool is...happy that he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the penty giv'n, 265 The poor contents him with the care of Hcav'n. See the blind beggar dance, the cripple...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Moral essays

Alexander Pope - 1752 - 378 pages
...wants, ftailtics, ^ijd paffions, proves the beft expedient to wean EP. II. ESSAYONMA N. 79 The learn 'd is happy nature to explore, The fool is happy that...of Heav'n. See the blind beggar dance, the cripple Cng, The fot a hero, lunatic a king ; The ftarving chemift in his golden views Supremely bleil, the...
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The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1754 - 238 pages
...to reiign ; Taught half by Reafon, half by mere decay, To welcome death, and calmly pafs away. 260 The poor contents him with the care of Heav'n. See the blind beggar dance, the cripple fmg, The fot a hero, lunatic a king ; The ftarving chemift in his golden views Supremely bleft, the...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Moral essays

Alexander Pope - English literature - 1757 - 234 pages
...269 Whate'er the Paffion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbour with himfelf. The learn'd is happy nature to explore, The fool is...of Heav'n. See the blind beggar dance, the cripple fmg, The fot a hero, lunatic a king ; The ftarving chemift in his golden views Supremely bleft, the...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1760 - 402 pages
...great moment, the general thefis, That God makes ///, at every Jlep, predufiivt of Good. The learn' d is happy nature to explore, The fool is happy that...he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty given, 265 The poor contents him with the care of Heav'n. See the blind beggar dance, the cripple fing,...
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The Art of Poetry on a New Plan: Illustrated with a Great Variety of ...

John Newbery - English poetry - 1762 - 292 pages
...epiftle. Whate'er the paffion, knowledge, fame or pelf, Not one will change his neighbour with himfelf. The learn'd is happy nature to explore, The fool is...knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty giv'n, The poor contents him with the care of heav'n. See the blind beggar dance, the cripple ling, The fot...
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