 | 1903 - 248 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 things in Pope as good and as quotable, and, perhaps one may say, as little known.... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - Literary Criticism - 1976 - 164 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. Cloe's prudence fails to take her beyond the 'decencies' that guide her life, into true generosity,... | |
 | Robert Alter - Poetry - 1985 - 246 pages
...satiric character of Flavia, the relentlessly fashionable, would-be witty, sensualist: "You purchase Pain with all that Joy can give, / And die of nothing but a Rage to live" (Moral Essay II, 99-100). The eighteenth-century convention of capitalizing nouns helps make more prominent... | |
 | Valerie Rumbold - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 342 pages
...published text of 1735. I have followed TE in correcting 'fragrant' for 'flagrant' in line 26. Who purchase Pain with all that Joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live. (line 95) He is most explicit about his complicated response to this kind of woman when he describes... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 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. 100 Tum then from Wits, and look on Simo's mate, No ass so meek, no ass so obstinate: Or her that owns... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 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... | |
 | Mary S. Lovell - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 948 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 . . . Alexander Pope WW NORTON & COMPANY NEW YORK • LONDON Copyright © 1998 by Mary S. Lovell First... | |
 | W. H. Auden - Poetry - 2004 - 604 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,... | |
 | Adair Broughton - 2006 - 282 pages
...to class them separately. ' The Age of Reason pt. ii (1795) ALEXANDER POPE 1688-1744 'You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live. ' Ep. ii. To a Lady Praha was at peace. It would only be temporarily, that he knew, but for now he... | |
 | W. B. Carnochan - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 166 pages
...recalls the tangled contradictions of a (female) character in Pope's "Epistle to a Lady": "[You] purchase pain with all that joy can give,/ And die of nothing but a rage to live." Throughout Burton's story runs the thread of mystery. What, exactly, did the journals and diaries contain... | |
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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. 
