 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...pompous sha.k. Alas ! not dazzled with their noon- tide ray, Compute the mom and evening to the day ; Thomas Tegg shanu ! Know then this truth (enough for man to know) " Virtue alone is happiness below." The only... | |
 | Charles M. Ingersoll - English language - 1825 - 298 pages
...sentence obliquely, and which may be omitted without injuring the grammatical construction ; as, " Know then this truth, (enough for man to know,) " Virtue alone is happiness below. " And was the ransom paid ? It was ; and paid " (What can exalt his bounty more ?) for thee. " To gain... | |
 | Samuel Oliver (jun.) - 1825 - 418 pages
...sentence obliquely, and which may be omitted without injury to the grammatick construction ; as ; " Know then this truth, (enough for man to know,) Virtue alone is happiness below." " To gain a posthumous reputation is to save four, or five letters, (for what is a name besides?) from... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1825 - 82 pages
...Exclamation point ! The Parenthefis ( ) as, " Are you fincere J" " How excellent is a grateful heart !" " Know then this truth, (enough for man to know,) " Virtue alone is ha)ipinels below." The following characters are alfo frequently ufed in competition. An Apoftrophe,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 184 pages
...around with boundless bounty blest And heav n beholds its image in his breast Happinttt. Know (hen this truth enough for man to know Virtue alone is...the good without the fall to ill Where only merit con-lant pay receives Is blest iu what it i,'k • and what it gives The joy unequal! d it its end... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...pompous shade. Alas t not dazzled with their noon-tide ray, Compute the morn and evening to the day ; 310 The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where... | |
 | Railroad conductors - 1915 - 1068 pages
...me of that which benefits him nothing, but which makes me poor indeed." Alexander Pope adds another: "Know then this truth, enough for man to know, Virtue alone is happiness below." There Is joy in life. We live, we move, we have our being. We enter life helpless and Innocent, unconscious... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...pompous shade. Alas ! not dazzled with their noon-tide ray, 305 Compute the morn and ev'ning to the day; The whole amount of that enormous fame, A Tale, that blends their glory with their shame! vII. Know then this truth (enough for Man to know) 'Virtue alone is Happiness below.' 310 The only... | |
 | Noah Webster - Banks and banking - 1802 - 296 pages
...— the certain evanescence of popular fame— • " quam vana, aut ieviaura mobile vulgusest. ! I" " The whole amount of that enormous fame, A tale, that blends their glory .vith their shame," TIME and patience would fail me, to enter into a minute examination of all the... | |
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Compute the morn and evening to the day ? The whole amount of that enormous fame, A tale that blends their glory with their shame ! Know then this truth (enough for man to know) 'Virtue alone is happiness below. 
