 | Robert L. Cooper - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1989 - 232 pages
...Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will 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 chemist in his golden views Supremely blest, the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1993 - 776 pages
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 | Theodore M. Bernstein - Business & Economics - 1995 - 516 pages
...is among the commonest and most effective of rhetorical devices. An example from Pope: "The learn'd is happy nature to explore, the fool is happy that he knows no more." CHIASMUS A heightener of dramatic or oratorical effect, chiasmus is the inversion in the second of... | |
 | Judith N. Shklar - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 436 pages
...happiness is mostly delusive, a socially induced madness. "The learn'd is happy nature to explore / The rich is happy in the plenty given / The poor contents him with the care of Heav'n / See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing, / The sot a hero; lunatic a king" (II, 265-268).... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...familiar with her face. We first endure, then pity, then embrace. 8902 An Essay on Man The learn'd pes is a regular feature of normal human life. 8903 An Essay on Man Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a... | |
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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. 
