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Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives, Is blest in what lose, attended with no pain : Without satiety, though e'er so blest, And but more relish'd as the more...
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An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke

Alexander Pope - 1844 - 94 pages
...tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives, Is bless'd in what it takes, and what it gives ; The joy unequall'd, if its end it gain, 315 And if it lose, attended with no pain : Without satiety, though e'er so bless'd, And but more relish'd...
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The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by ..., Volume 4

Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives, Is blest in what it takes, and what it gives ; The joy unequall'd, if its end it gain, 315 And if it lose, attended with no pain : Without satiety, though e'er so bless'd, And but more relish'd...
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Essai sur l'homme

Alexander Pope - 1850 - 94 pages
...tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only Merit constant pay receives , Is blest in what it takes , and what it gives , The joy unequall'd , if its end it gain , And if it lose , attended with no pain : Without satiety, tho' e'er so bless'd , And but more relish'd as the...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives, J< W^sa'd in what it takes, and what it gives ; The joy unequall'd, if its end it gain, Aid if it loie, attended with no pain: Without satiety, though e'er so bless'd, And bat more rclifh'd...
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The speaker: or, Miscellaneous pieces selected from the best English writers ...

William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 pages
...tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only Merit constant pay receives, Is blest in what it takes, and what it gives ; The joy unequall'd if its end it gain, And if it lose attended with no pain : Without satiety, though e'er so bless'd, And but more relish'd as the...
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The Works of the British Poets, Selected and Chronologically Arranged ...

English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...the good without the fall to ill; Where only merit constant pay receives, Is blest in what it takea, , lose, attended with no pain: Without satiety, though e'er so blest, And but more relish'd as the more...
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English Grammar, Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners: With an ...

Lindley Murray - English language - 1852 - 272 pages
...without the fall to ill : Where only merit constant pay receives, Is bless'd in what it takes, and what u gives ; The joy unequall'd, if its end it gain, And if it lose, attended with no pain : Without satiety, though e'er so bless'd ; And but more reiish'd as the...
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English Grammar, Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners: With an ...

Lindley Murray - English language - 1852 - 272 pages
...fall to ill : Where only merit constant pay receives, .,- ' Is bless'd in what it takes, and what u gives ; The joy unequall'd, if its end it gain, And if it lose, attended wrth no pain : Without satiety, though e'er so bless'd ; And but more reiish'd as the...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by R. Carruthers, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1853 - 336 pages
...tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives, Is blest in what it takes, and what it gives ; The joy unequall'd, if its end it gain, 315 And if it lose, attended with no pain : ^ Without satiety, though e'er so bless'd, And but more...
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