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" The learn'd is happy nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty given, The poor contents him with the care of Heaven. "
Extracts, Elegant, Instructive, and Entertaining, in Poetry - Page 205
edited by - 1791
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The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbour with himself. The learn'd is happy nature to explore, The fool is happy that...he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty giv'n, 265 The poor contents him with the care of Heav'n. See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing,...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame or pelf, Not one would change his neighbor with himself. The learn'd is happy, nature to explore, The fool is happy that...of heaven : See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing, The sot a hero, lunatic a king ; The starving chymist in his golden views Supremely blest, the...
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The Reader: Containing I. The Art of Delivery ... a Selection of Lessons in ...

Abner Alden - English language - 1814 - 222 pages
...WHATE'ER the passion, knowledge, fame or pelf, Not one will change his neighbour with himself. The learn'd is happy nature to explore ; The fool is. happy that...of heaven. See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing, The sot a hero, lunatick a king ; The starving chymist in his golden views Supremely blest !...
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Elegant poems. Pope's Essay on man, Blair's Grave, Gray's Elegy, Goldsmith's ...

Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...the passion, knowledge, fame or pelf, Not one will change his neighbour with himself. TJie learn'd is happy nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more ; The rich is happy in t!ie plenty giv'n, 265 The poor contents him with the care of Heav'n. See the blind beggar dance, the...
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Quakerism Unveiled: Truth Prevalent : in Two Letters, Addressed to the ...

Ephraim Wood - Society of Friends - 1815 - 384 pages
...as the flood, that external circumstances notwithstanding, happiness is pretty equally distributed. The learned is happy, nature to explore, The fool...happy, in the plenty given, The poor contents him in the care of Heaven. See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing, The sot a hero, lunatic a king....
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...the passion, knowledge, fame or pelf; Not one would change his neighbour with himsetf. The learn'd is happy, nature to explore, The fool is happy that...of heaven : See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing, The sot a hero, lunatic a king; The starving chymisf in his golden views Supremely blest, the...
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An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John Lord Bolinbroke. To which ...

Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1820 - 80 pages
...Thate'er the passion, knowledge, fame or pelf, Xotoae will change his neighbor with himself. The learn'd is happy, nature to explore, The fool is happy that...given; The poor contents him with the care of Heaven. 5ee the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing, The sot a hero, lunatic a king; The starving chemist...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 422 pages
...neighbor with himself. The learn'd is happy, nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no moce ; The rich is happy in the plenty given, The poor contents...of heaven ; See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing, The sot a hero, lunatic a king ; The starving chymist in his golden views Supremely blest, the...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 398 pages
...the passion, knowledge, fame or pelf, Not one would change his neighbor witli himself. The learn'd is happy, nature to explore, •• . The fool is..., The rich is happy in the plenty given, The poor content! him with the care of heaven : See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing, The sot a hero,...
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The Poetical Works of Robert Anderson, Author of "Cumberland ..., Volume 2

Robert Anderson - Cumberland (England) - 1820 - 308 pages
...livers, in content, Than to be perk'd up in a gliU'ring grief, And wear a golden sorrow." " The learn'd is happy, nature to explore ; The fool is happy, that...he knows no more; The rich is happy in the plenty giv'n : , The poor contents him with the care of Heav'n. Pore. HAIL POVERTY ! in tatter'd weeds array'd;...
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