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" With too much spirit to be e'er at ease; With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live. "
Extracts, Elegant, Instructive, and Entertaining, in Poetry - Page 215
edited by - 1791
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Moral essays

Alexander Pope - 1751 - 272 pages
...too much Quicknefs ever to be taught ; With too much Thinking to have commonThought : You purchafe Pain with all that Joy can give, And die of nothing but a Rage to live. IOO Turn then from Wits ; and look on Simo's Mate, No Afs fo meek, no Afs fo obftinate. Or her, that...
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The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 274 pages
...too much Quicknefs ever to be taught ; With too much Thinking to have commonThought : You purchafe Pain with all that Joy can give, And die of nothing but a Rage to live. . 100 Turn then from Wits ; and look on Simo's Mate, No Afs fo meek, no Afs fo obftinate. Or her, that...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Moral essays

Alexander Pope - 1752 - 378 pages
..."With too much Quicknefs ever to be taught ; "With too muchThinking to have commonThought: You purchafe Pain with all that Joy can give, And die of nothing but a Rage to live. i oo Turn then from Wits; and look on Simo'sMate, No Afs fo meek, no Afs fo obftinate. Or her, that...
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The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1754 - 238 pages
...common Thought: You purchafe Pain with all that Joy can give, And die of nothing but a Rage to live. 100 Turn then from Wits; and look on Simo's Mate, No Afs fo meek, no Afs fo obflinate. Or her, that owns her Faults, but never mends, Becaufe (he's honeft, and the beft of Friends....
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Moral essays

Alexander Pope - English literature - 1757 - 234 pages
...too much Quicknefs ever to be taught ; With too much Thinking to have common Thought; You purchafe pain with all that Joy can give, And die of nothing but a Rage to live. 100 Turn then from Wits ; and look on Simo's Mate, No Afs fo meek, no Afs fo obftinate. Or her that...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1760 - 402 pages
...her Stars— Death, that Opiate of the ftui /J Sec Note on Ver. 90. of Ep. to Lord Cebham. 'JL urn then from Wits ; and look on Simo's Mate, No Afs fo meek, no Afs fo obftinate. Or her, that owns her Faults, but never mends, Becaufe fhe's honeft, and the beft of Friends....
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The Life of Alexander Pope, Esq: Compiled from Original Manuscripts; with a ...

Owen Ruffhead - Biography - 1769 - 592 pages
...Quicknefs ever to be taught ; *' With too much Thinking to have common " Thought : *' You purchafe Pain with all that Joy can " give, ** And die of nothing but a Rage to live.' " In thefe fen'timents, there is a peculiar fprightlinefs, pbignance and propriety. But the author,...
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The Life of Alexander Pope, Esq: Compiled from Original Manuscripts; with a ...

Owen Ruffhead - Biography - 1769 - 600 pages
...much Quicknefs ever to be taught ; " With too much Thinking to have common " Thought : " You purchafe Pain with all that Joy can " give, " And die of nothing but a Rage to live." In thefe fentiments, there is a peculiar fprightlinefs, poignance and propriety. But the author, it...
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 75-76

John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...too much quickness ever to be taught ; With too much thinking to have common thought; You purchase pain with all that joy can give, .And die of nothing but a rage to live. W* Turn then from wits; and look on Simo's mate; No ass so meek, no ass so obstinate; Or her, that...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last ...

Alexander Pope - 1778 - 410 pages
...rrjuch quicknefs ever to be taught ; With too much thinking to have common thought : f "You purchafe pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live. ipa Turn then from wits ; and look op Simo's mate, No ats fo meek, no afs fo ohil.mate, Or her, that...
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