 Tis but what virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want, which is, to pass for good. Oh blind to truth, and God's whole scheme below, Who fancy bliss to vice, to virtue woe! Who sees and follows that...  Maids of honour [signed Frank Ranelagh]. - Seite 115von Robert Folkestone Williams - 1845Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 Seiten
...blest or curs'd, Which meets contempt, or which compassion first ? Count all the advantage prosp'rous vice attains, *Tis but what virtue flies from and disdains : And grant the bad what happiness they wou'd, One they must want, which is to pass for good. Oh, blind to truth, and God's whole scheme below,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 Seiten
...Count all th' advantage prosp'rous vice attains, 'Tis but what virtue flies from and disdains : 90 And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want, \vhich is to pass for good. Oh ! blind to truth and God's whole scheme below, Who fancy bliss to vice,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 Seiten
...Count all the' advantage prosperous vice attains, Tu but what virtue flies from and disdains ; Aud grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want, which is to pass for good. O blind to truth and God's whole scheme below^ Who fancy bliss to vice, to virtue woe! Who sees and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 Seiten
...vice or virtue, whether blest or curst, Which meets contempt, or which compassion first? Count all th' advantage prosperous vice attains, "Tis but what virtue...would, One they must want, which is to pass for good. Oh blind to truth, and God"s whole scheme below, Who fancy bliss to vice, to virtue woe! Who sees and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 Seiten
...which compassion first? Count all the' advantage prosperous vice attains, 'Tis but what virtue Hies from and disdains : And grant the bad what happiness...would, One they must want, which is to pass for good. O blind to truth and God's whole scheme below, Who fancy bliss to vice, to virtue woe ! Who sees and... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 Seiten
...right ? Of vice or virtue, whether bless'd or curs'd, Which meets contempt, or which compassion first ? Count all the' advantage prosperous vice attains,...what virtue flies from and disdains : And grant the had what happiness they would, One they must want, which is to pass for good. O blind to truth and... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 Seiten
...[first? Which meets contempt, or which compassion Count all th' advantage prosp'rous Vice attains. I 'is up the street, Batt'ring the pavement with their coursers' feet : The greedy fi wou'd, One they must want, which is, to pass for good, Oh blind totruth.andGod's wholcscheme below,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 Seiten
...Count all th' advantage prosperous Vic* attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flics from and disdains : 90 And grant the bad what happiness they would. One they must want, which is to pass for good. Oh blind to truth, and God's whole scheme below,. Who fancy bliss to Vice, to Virtni- woe ! Who sees... | |
 | William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - 1811 - 446 Seiten
...curst, Which meets contempt, or which compassion first ? •» Count all :th' advantage prosp'rous vice attains, Tis but what virtue flies from, and...would, One they must want, which is, to pass for good. Here Mr. De Crousaz's remarks are indeed very extraordinary — " To whom (says he) are these interro"... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 444 Seiten
...blest or curst, Which meets contempt, or which compassion first ? Count all th' advantage prosp'rous vice attains, 'Tis but what virtue flies from, and...would, One they must want, which is, to pass for good. Here Mr. J)e Crousaz's remarks are indeed very extraordinary — " To whom (says he) are these interro"... | |
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