 | Alexander Pope - 1783 - 322 Seiten
...Virtue's prize : a better would you fix?Then give Humility a coach and fix, Juftice a Conq'ror's fword, 'or Truth a gown, Or Public Spirit its great cure, a Crown. Weak, foolifh man ! will Heav'n reward us there* With the fame trafh mad mortals wifh for here i The Boy... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1787 - 396 Seiten
...and wife ? The joke, though lively, was iH placed, and therefore Jlruck. out of the text. i • • Is Virtue's prize : A better would you fix- ? Then give Humility a coach and fix, 170 Jnllice R Conqu'ror's fword, or 'i ruth a gown, Or Public Spirit ks great cure, a Crown. Weak,... | |
 | John Adams - 1789 - 376 Seiten
...'XTtTHAT nothing earthly gives or can deftroy, The fold's calm funfhine, and the heart-felt joy, Ii Virtue's prize: a better would you fix ? Then give Humility a coach and fix ; Juftice a conqii'ror's fword,. or Truth ^a gown, Or Public Spirit its great cure, a crown.. Weak,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 Seiten
...\Vliat nothing earthly gives, or can deftroy, Tilt funl's calm funfhine and the heart-felt joy I» nor feek flight faults to find, Where nature moves, and rapture warms t fix, Ji'.llice a conqu'ror s fword, or truth a gown, Or public fpirit irs great cure, a crown. Weak,... | |
 | James Roach - 1793 - 274 Seiten
...of nature will they fland ? What nothing earthly gives, or can dellroy, The foul's calm- fun-mine, and the heart-felt joy, . Is virtue's prize : a better would you fix, . Then give humility a coach and fix, Juflice a conqu'ror's fword, or truth a gown, Or public fpirit its great cure, a crown. Weak,... | |
 | William Hutchinson - 1795 - 386 Seiten
...disposition of the soul 5 from whence must arise that comely order, that delightful self-complacency, Which nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy. THUS, from our instruments, may we all be instructed to raise a stately fabric of good works, upon... | |
 | 1796 - 246 Seiten
...of nature will they ftand ? What nothing earthly gives, or can defiroy, The foul's calm funflrine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize : a better would you fix, Then give humility a coach and fix, Juftice a conqu'ror's fword, or truth a gown, Or public fpirit its great cure, a crown. Weak,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 574 Seiten
...{land ? What nothing earthly gives, or can deftroy, The foul's calm limlhine, and the heart- felt jry, Is virtue's prize : a better would you fix ? Then give humility a coach and fix, Juuice a conqu'ror's fword, or truth a gown, Or public fpint its great cure, a crown. Weak, fooliih... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1797 - 384 Seiten
...many paflages in this Eflay to fuffer us to admit of the forced interpretation here given by Ramfay. Is Virtue's prize : A better would you fix ? Then give Humility a coach and fix, 170 Juftice a Conqu'ror's fword, or Truth a gown, Or Public Spirit its great cure, a Crown. Weak,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 Seiten
...to give : Immense the pow'r, immense were the demand ; Say, at what part of nature will they stand ? What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's...would you fix ? Then give Humility a coach and six, Justice a conq'ror's sword, or Truth a gown, Or public Spirit its great cure, a crown. Weak, foolish... | |
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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize: A better would you fix? 
