| Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 430 pages
...blest. But fools, the good alone unhappy call, For ills or accidents that chance to. all. COMMENTARY. " Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie...health consists with temperance alone ; And peace, oh Virtue ! peace is all thy own." Ver. 93. Oh Hind to truth, Sfc.] Our author having thus largely... | |
| Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...heaps they raise. 11 Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie...health consists with temperance alone; And peace, 0 virtue! peace is all thy own. The good or bad the gifts of fortune gain; But these less taste them,... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...heaps they raise. Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, the loudest drones, With snuffling, broken-winded...Sound filthier than from the gut, And makes a viler oh virtue ! Peace is all thy own. The good or bad the gifts of fortune gain ; But these less taste... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...heaps they raise. Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and Nature meant to mere Mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie...health consists with temperance alone ; And peace, oh Virtue ! peace is all thy own. COMMENTARY. Ver. 77. Know, all the good, fyc.] The Poet having thus... | |
| Edward Allen Talbot - Canada - 1824 - 450 pages
...every tongue speaks the language of independence. If the maxim of our ethic poet be correct, that i Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, HEALTH, PEACE, and COMPETENCE, I do not wonder at beholding such an invariable picture of enjoyment in the looks of the Canadians... | |
| Minstrel - 1824 - 246 pages
...common sense. — Knuw, all the good that individuals find, Or God of nature meant to mere mankind : Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, Health, Peace, and Competence. A HYMN, Composed in a morning walk near Congltton, 4 " These are thy glorious works parent of good... | |
| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1824 - 80 pages
...heaps they raise. Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace and competence, 80 But health consists with temperance alone ; And peace, O virtue ! peace is all thy own. The good... | |
| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1824 - 84 pages
...Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three word?, health, peace and competence. 80 But health consists with temperance alone ; And peace, O virtue ! peace is all thy own. The good or bad the gifts of fortune gain ; But these less taste them, as they worse obtain. Say, in... | |
| Readers - 1824 - 348 pages
...they raise. Know, all the good that individuals find, Or god and nature meant to mere mankind. Reasons whole pleasure, all the joys of sense Lie in three words — Health, -Peace, and Competence. \ Speech of Adam to Eve. NOW morn her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with... | |
| British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...heaps they raise. Know all the good that individuals find, Or God and Nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie...alone ; And peace, O Virtue! peace is all thy own. The good or bad the gifts of fortune gain ; But these less taste them, as they worse obtain. Say, in... | |
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