 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 Seiten
...Ask of the learn'tf the way. The learn'd are blind ; This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind : Some place the bliss in action, some in ease ; Those...pleasure end in pain ; Some swell'd to gods, confess ev'n virtue vain ; Or indolent, to each extreme they fall, To trust in ev'ry thing, or doubt of all.... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 Seiten
...Ask of the learn'd the way ? the learn'd are blind ; This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind; Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those...pleasure end in pain ; Some swell'd to gods, confess ev'n virtue vain ! Or indolent, to each extreme they fall, To trust in every thing, or doubt of all.... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1825 - 426 Seiten
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 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1825 - 316 Seiten
...Ask of the Jearn'd the way. The learn'd are blind ; This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind : Some place the bliss in action, some in ease ; Those...Some sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain ; Some swcll'd to gods, confess ev'n virtue vain; Or indolent, to each extreme they fall, To trust in ev'ry... | |
 | Richard Harrison Black - 1825 - 372 Seiten
...place confined, " But still is found in a contented mind." Contentment, the state of being content. " Some place the bliss in action, some in ease ; " Those call it pleasure, and contentment these." Pope. Con-test, from contra, against, and testari, to bear witness. To dispute, to call in question.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 Seiten
...shun mankind ; Some plaee the bliss in aetion, some in ease, Those eall it pleasure, and eontentment fluttering eovey rise. Soon as the blushing light begins to spread, And glanein eonfess ev'n virtue vain ; Or, indolent, to eaeh extreme they fall, To trust in ev'ry thing, or doubt... | |
 | 1826 - 438 Seiten
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 | 1830 - 368 Seiten
...satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient, for he that is content wants nothing." " Some place the bliss in action, some in ease ; Those...Some, swell'd to gods, confess e'en virtue vain." POPE. I continued the above self-denying life until I left Bristol, which was on Whitsunday in 1769.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 Seiten
...blind : This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind ; 20 Some place the bliss in action, some in case, die. To trust in every thing, or doubt of all. Who thus define it, say they more or less Than this, that... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 264 Seiten
...•3. Ask of the learn 'd the way. The learn'd are blind; This bids to serve and that to shun mankind ; Some place the bliss in action, some in ease ; Those...Some sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain ; Some swelled to gods, confess ev'n virtue vain ; Or indolent, to each extreme they fall, To trust in ev'ry... | |
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Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these: Some sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain ; Some swell'd to gods, confess e'en virtue vain! 
