 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...nnlture, not the soil : Fix'd to no spot is happiness sincere, 'Tis no where to be found, or every where : 'Tis never to be bought, but always free, And fled from monarch*, St. John ! dwells with thee. Ask of the learn'd the way ? the learn'd are blind ; This hids... | |
 | John Sabine - Elocution - 1810 - 308 pages
...The pow'rful ceslus to her snowy breast. HOMER, On Happiness. Fix'd to no spot is happiness sincere, 'Tis no where to be found, or ev'ry where ; 'Tis never...free, And fled from monarchs, St. John ! dwells with thee. Ask of the Jearn'd the way ? the learn'd are blind ; This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind;... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...10 Twin'd with the wreaths Parnassian laurels yield, Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? Where grows ? where grows it not ? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil : Fix'd to no spot is happiness sincere, Tisno where to be found, on-very where : Tis never to... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1810 - 394 pages
...wreaths Parnassian laurels yield, Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? Where grows ? where grows not ? if vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. Pope's Essay on Man, ep. iv. Here the phrase, where grows, assumes the ising inflection, and... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 446 pages
...dedicate a few hours to reflection before he renewed his search. . VISITOR, No. 25. . No. LXXXVIII. Where grows ? Where grows it not ? if vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil ; Fijt'd to no spot i= happiness sincere, , 'Tis no where to be found, or every where. POPE. HE... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 444 pages
...it at all contradict what he had said to him concerning happiness, in the beginning of the Epistle : 'Tis never to be bought, but always free, And, fled from monarchs, St. John! dwells with thee. For he is now proving that nothing either external to Man, or what is not in his own power, and... | |
 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - Anglican Communion - 1811 - 454 pages
...it at all contradict what he had said to him concerning happiness, in the beginning of the Epistle : 'Tis never to be bought, but always free, And, fled from monarchs, St. John! dwells withthee. For he is now proving that nothing either external to Man, or what is not in his own power,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...10 Twin'd with the wreaths Parnassian laurels yield, Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? Where grows ? — where grows it not ? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil : Fix'd to no spot is happiness sincere, 15 'Tis no where to be found, or ev'ry where : 'Tis never... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1812 - 378 pages
...? Twin'd with the wreaths Parnassian laurels yield, Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? Where grows ? where grows it not ? if vain our toil,. We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. Fix'd to no spot is happiness sincere ; 'Tis'no where to be found, or ev'ry where ; 'T 7 ^ never... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1813 - 276 pages
...Twin'd with the wreaths Parnassian laurels yield, Or reup'd in iron harvests of the field ? • •Where grows ? Where grows it not ? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the eulture, not the soil. Tix'd to no spot is happiness sineere, 'Tis no where to be fm'nd, or ev'ry where:... | |
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