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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. "
The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by ... - Page 52
by English poets - 1790
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An Essay on Man: In Epistles to a Friend. Epistle II.

Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1733 - 26 pages
...happy, that he knows no more; i The Rich are happy и the Plenty given • '. . ' ' The Poor content« him with the Care of Heaven. See the blind Beggar dance, the Cripple fing, The Sot a Hero, I^unatic a King, The ftarving Chymift in his golden Views Supreamly bleft, thé...
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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 - 1745 - 432 pages
...Nature to explore j 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 dance, the Cripple (ing, The Sot a Hero, Lunatick a King, : :, .v.-.i" The ftarvingChymift in his golden VieTfs .- .r...
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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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The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 274 pages
...inherits here ; Yet, from the fame we learn, in its decline, Thofe joys, thofe loves, thofe int'refts to refign ; Taught half by Reafon, half by mere decay,...he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty giv'n, 265 The poor contents him with the care of Heav'n. See the blind beggar dance, the cripple fmg,...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Moral essays

Alexander Pope - 1751 - 272 pages
...inherits here ; Yet from the fame we learn, in its decline, Thofe joys, thofe loves, thofe int'refts to refign ; Taught half by Reafon, half by mere decay,...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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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...he knows no more; The rich is happy in the plenty giv'n, . 265 The poor contents him with the care of Heav'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...he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty giv'n, 265 The poor contents him with the care of Heav'n. See the blind beggar dance, the cripple Cng,...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Moral essays

Alexander Pope - English literature - 1757 - 234 pages
...to refign ; Taught half by reafon, half by mere decay, To welcome death, and calmly pafs away. 269 Whate'er the Paffion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not...he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty giv'n, 265 The poor contents him with the care of Heav'n. See the blind beggar dance, the cripple fmg,...
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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...given, 265 The poor contents him with the care of Heav'n. See the blind beggar dance, the cripple fing, The fot a hero, lunatic a king ; The ftarving...
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