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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. "
Reflection: A Poem, in Four Cantos ... - Page 86
by Fulke Greville - 1790 - 278 pages
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Cours de versions anglaises ou Recueil choisi d'anecdotes, traits ...

P. Sadler - 1841 - 362 pages
...passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbour with himself. The learn'd (2) is happy Nature to explore ; The fool is happy that he knows no more ; The rich (2) is happy in the plenty giv'n, The poor (2) contents him with the care of Heaven. See the blind...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf. Not one will change his neighbor with himself. The learn'd is a happy in the plenty given. The poor contents him with the care of Heaven. EPIST. II. POPE. EPIST....
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Crystal Fount and Rechabite Recorder, Volumes 5-6

1845 - 792 pages
...pelf, Not one will change his neighbor for himself; The learned is happy nature to explore, The foul is happy that he knows no more : The rich is happy in the plenty given, The poor contents him with the care of Heaven. See the blind beggar d»nco, the cripple sing...
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National Preceptor

Jesse Olney - Elocution - 1845 - 348 pages
...pelfj Not one would change his neighbor with himself. The learn'd is happy, nature to explore, The feol is happy that he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty given, The poor contents him with the care of heaven : See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing,...
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The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by ..., Volume 4

Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...stood in no need of each other's assistance, there would have been no occasion for the 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 sing, The...
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Selected Poems of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - 1926 - 306 pages
...Passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, _L Not one will change his neighbour with himself. 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 sing, The...
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The Poems of Alexander Pope: A One-volume Edition of the Twickenham Text ...

Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...the Passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself. 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 sing. The...
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Alexander Pope

Yasmine Gooneratne - Literary Criticism - 1976 - 164 pages
...Passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf 261 Not one will change his neighbour with himself, The learn'd is happy nature to explore. The fool is happy that he...is happy in the plenty giv'n, The poor contents him with the care of Heav'n. See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing. The sot a hero, lunatic a king;...
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Benjamin Rush's Lectures on the Mind

Benjamin Rush - Psychology - 1981 - 770 pages
...not the necessary consequence of ignorance and of the inactivity of the understanding. The "Wise is happy, nature to explore; , "The fool is happy that he knows no more." In this respect, you see the understanding differs from the senses and the passions; all the pleasures...
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Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written ...

Benjamin Franklin - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 90 pages
...desired, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbour with himself ; 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. Thus does some comfort...
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