 | State Medical Society of Wisconsin - Medicine - 1896 - 622 pages
...laws of nature; they exite our pity, but we are unable to render any permanent relief. "They purchase pain with all that joy can give And die of nothing but a rage to live." The customs and habits among men are yet more pernicious and criminal. They contract with avidity the... | |
 | Stephen Lucius Gwynn - Authors, English - 1904 - 458 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. There is no end to the quotable in Pope. But he merits, in all senses, that no one should write of... | |
 | Literature - 1906 - 856 pages
...reaction. Some day the call-bell of fashion will bring on a still newer Flavia, who will again— Purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live. CHINA AND THE WEST. We own to a fear that China and the West are nearing another collision. The telegrams... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English poetry - 1907 - 616 pages
...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. 100 Turn then from wits; and look on Simo's mate, No ass so meek, no ass so obstinate; Or her, that... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - English poetry - 1918 - 422 pages
...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...live. 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,... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...Otherwise it were devilish. OWEN MEREDITH (Lord Lytton) — Lucile. Pt. n. Canto V. St. 8. 18 You purchase 'er When I on thee should look my last, And thou shouldst smile no more POPE— Moral Essays. Ep. II. L. 99. Pain is no longer pain when it is past. MARGARET J. PRESTON—... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - English poetry - 1926 - 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...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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1926 - 306 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. too Turn them from Wits ; and look on Simo's Mate, No Ass so meek, no Ass so obstinate. Or her, that... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...too much Quickness ever to be taught, With too much Thinking to have common Thought : Who 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... | |
 | John E. Sitter - Verse satire, English - 1971 - 146 pages
...With too much Quickness ever to be taught, With too much Thinking to have common Thought: Who purchase Pain with all that Joy can give, And die of nothing but a Rage to live.22 Pope's character sketches of this kind are brilliant and unsurpassed in their mixture of condemnation... | |
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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. 
