| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...the day ; The whole amount ofthat enormous fame, A tale, that blende their glory with their shame! prevails, The solid power happiness below." The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall... | |
| Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...the day; The whole amount of that enormous fame, A tale, that blends their glory with their shame! 41 Know then this truth (enough for man to know) "Virtue alone is happiness below." The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall... | |
| Martin M'Dermot, Martin MacDermot - Acting - 1824 - 430 pages
...virtues, (formidable name !) What but the fountain or defence of joy ? The following is from Pope. Know then this truth, (enough for man to know,) Virtue alone is happiness below. The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall... | |
| Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 424 pages
...the day ! The whole amount of that enormous fame, A tale, that blends their glory with their shame! Know then this truth (enough for Man to know) " Virtue alone is happiness below." 310 The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1825 - 82 pages
...Exclamation point ! The Parenthefis ( ) as, " Are you fincere J" " How excellent is a grateful heart !" " Know then this truth, (enough for man to know,) " Virtue alone is ha)ipinels below." The following characters are alfo frequently ufed in competition. An Apoftrophe,... | |
| British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...the day ; The whole amount of that enormous fame, A tale that blends their glory with their shame ! Know then this truth (enough for man to know) , ' Virtue alone is happiness below :' The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall... | |
| Samuel Oliver (jun.) - 1825 - 418 pages
...sentence obliquely, and which may be omitted without injury to the grammatick construction ; as ; " Know then this truth, (enough for man to know,) Virtue alone is happiness below." " To gain a posthumous reputation is to save four, or five letters, (for what is... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...the day ; The whole amount of that enormous fame, A tale, that blends their glory with their shanu ! n for Thomas Tegg happiness below." The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall... | |
| C D. Golland, Mrs. C. D. Haynes Golland - 1827 - 594 pages
...consists only in the practice of virtue ; and now, to dismiss the subject, in the words of the poet — ' Know then, this truth, enough for man to know, , Virtue alone is happiness below." As the hour was now getting late, he I 3 did not resume his reading, and the conversation... | |
| Anthologies - 1827 - 290 pages
...wife, The trophy'd arches, story'd halls invade, And haunt their slumbers in the pompous shade. . ***** Know then this truth, (enough for man to know) ' Virtue alone is happiness below.' The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall... | |
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