| Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 Seiten
...who chain'd his country? say Or he whose virtue sigh'd to lose a day? * But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed.' What then? Is the reward of virtue...vice may merit ; 'tis the price of toil ; The knave deserves it, when he tills the soil ; The knave deserves it, when he tempts the main, Where folly fights... | |
| Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 Seiten
...whose virtue sigh'd to lose a day 1 148 ' But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed.' What then 1 Is the reward of virtue bread ? That, vice may merit, 'tis the price of toil ; The knave deserves it, when he tills the soil, The knave deserves it, when he tempts the main, Where Folly fights... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 Seiten
...chain'd his country, say, Or he whose virtue sigh'd to lose a day 1 its ' But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed.' What then ? Is the reward of virtue bread 1 That, vice may merit, 'tis the price of toil ; The knave deserves it, when he tills the soil, The... | |
| 1856 - 416 Seiten
...prince, th' Eternal Cause Prone for his favourites to reverse his laws ? ' If ' sometimes virtue wants while vice is fed, What then ? is the reward of virtue...vice may merit, 'tis the price of toil, The knave deserves it when he tills the soil ; The knave deserves it when he tempts the main, Where folly fights... | |
| 1855 - 338 Seiten
...for his favourites to reverse his laws ? ' If ' sometimes virtue wants while vice is fed, What then 1 is the reward of virtue bread ? That vice may merit, 'tis the price of toil, The knave deserves it when he tills the soil ; The knave deserves it when he tempts the main, Where folly lights... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1878 - 138 Seiten
...who chain'd his country, say, Or he whose virtue sigh'd to lose a day? 'But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed.' What then? is the reward of virtue bread? 150 That vice may merit, 'tis the price of toil; The knave deserves it, when he tills the soil, The... | |
| sir John Bowring - 1879 - 626 Seiten
...conviction that virtue is the gainer and vice the loser here and now. " But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed ! What then ? Is the reward of virtue bread ?" The reader will find in him none of the moroseness and misanthropy of Schopenhauer; indeed, a serene... | |
| New Shakspere Society - 342 Seiten
...such like cheap cynics. Pope sums up this " cheap cynicism " thus : — " But sometimes Virtue starves while Vice is fed ; What then ? is the reward of Virtue bread f What nothing earthly gives nor can destroy — The soul's ctdm sunshine and the heartfelt joy Is... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1879 - 130 Seiten
...his country ? say, — Or he whose virtue sighed to lose a day ? VI. ' But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed.' What then ? Is the reward of virtue bread ? 150 That vice may merit, 'tis the price of toil ; The knave deserves it when he tills the soil, 128.... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 Seiten
...chain'd his country, say, Or he whose virtue sigh'd to lose a day ? ' But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed,' What then? Is the- reward of virtue...vice may merit, 'tis the price of toil ; The knave deserves it, when he tills the soil, The knave deserves it when he tempts the main, Where folly fights... | |
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