 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 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. 100 Turn then from wits ; and look on Simo's mate, No ass so meek, no ass so obstinate. Or her, that... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...than they Less hardy to endure ? courageous chief! The first in flight from pain. MILTON. You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live. POPE. O fatal search ! in which the lab'ring mind, Still press'd with weight of woe, still hopes to... | |
 | THOMAS ARNOLD - 1876 - 312 pages
...too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought; 80 You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing...Turn then from wits, and look on Simo's mate ; No ass so meek, no ass so obstinate : Or her that owns her faults, but never mends, Because she's honest,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 840 pages
...too much quickness ever to be taught ; With loo much thinking to have common thought : You purchase ass so meek, no ass so obstinate. Or her, that owns her faults, but never mends. Because she's honest,... | |
 | Wisconsin. State Board of Health - Public health - 1888 - 254 pages
...that sanitary science offers no relief; they excite our pity; for as the poet says: " They purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live. " It may do no good to inform them of what every observant medical man is aware — that most of their... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...than they Less hardy to endure ? courageous chief! The first in flight from pain. MILTON. You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live. 1'oPE. O fatal search ! in which the lab' ring mind, Still press'd with weight of woe, still hopes... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1881 - 570 pages
...much quickness ever to be taught, With t«o much thinking to have common thought : 80 Who purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing...a rage to live. Turn then from wits ; and look on Simo'.s mate ; No nss so meek, no ass so obstinate : Or her, that owns her faults, but never mends,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1881 - 572 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.1 100 Turn then from wits ; and look on Simo's mate, No ass so meek, no ass so obstinate. Or her,... | |
 | Five minutes daily readings - 1882 - 408 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...Turn then from Wits ; and look on Simo's mate ; No ass so meek, no ass so obstinate : Or her that owns her faults but never mends, Because she's honest,... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1882 - 1434 pages
...pain, Otherwise it were devilish. *. OWES MKBEDITH— Lucile. Pt. II. Canto V. (St. 8. Yon purchase k of Horace. Satire IL Line 37. They'll come again to the apple tree o. POPE— Moral Essays. Ep. II. Line 99. Pain is no longer pain when it is past. p. MARGARET J. PRESTON—... | |
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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. 
