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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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Traduction de l'essai sur l'homme de Pope: en vers français, précédée d'un ...

Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1821 - 268 pages
...away. Whale'er the Passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbour wilh himself. The learn'd is happy nature to explore, The fool is...he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty giv'n, The poor contents him with thé care of Heav'n. See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing,...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...away. Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbour with himself. The learn'd is happy Nature to explore, The fool is...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, The sot...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 pages
...260 Whate'er the Passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, 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 ; l^he rich is happy in the plenty giv'n, 265 The' poor contents him with the care of Heav'n. See the...
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The Pleasures of Human Life, Examined and Enumerated: With an Entertaining ...

John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...Time steals away, and smooths his flight; And thought's bewilder'd in delight. CHAP. XXVI IGNORANCE The learn'd is happy nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more. POPE. IGNORANCE is a constant source of pleasure to man; it conceals from his view many things of which...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, a Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse for the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...away. Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one would change his neighbour with himself. The learn'd is happy, nature to explore, The fool...knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty given, The poor contents him with the care of heav'n : See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing, The sot...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...away. Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbour with himself. The learn'd is happy nature to explore, The fool is...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, The sot...
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An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1824 - 84 pages
...360 Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pel£ Not one will change his neighbour with himself. The learn'd is happy nature to explore, The fool is...he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty giv'n, 365 The poor contents him with the care of Heav'n. See the blind beggar dance, the cripple stag,...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 424 pages
...Warburtm. Whate'er the Passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, 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 ; COMMENTARY. " One prospect lost, another still we gain ; And not a VANITY is giv'n in vain." Which...
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The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...Warburton. Whate'er the Passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, 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 ; COMMENTARY. " One prospect lost, another still we gain ; And not a VANITY is giv'n in vain." Which...
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The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue: Being a Compendium of Moral ...

Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...away. 27 Whate'er 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 morej The rich is happy in the plenty giv'n, The poor contents him with the care of Heav'n. 28 See...
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