 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...dazzled with their noontide ray, 305 Compute the morn and ev'ning to the day ; The whole amount of that enormous fame, A tale, that blends their glory with...alone is happiness below." 310 The only point where humap bliss stands siill, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only Merit constant pay... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1777 - 262 pages
...the day ; The whole amount of that enormous fame, A Tale, that blends their glory with their (hame ! Know then this truth (enough for Man. to know} " Virtue alone is happinefs below " The only point where human blifs ftands ftill, And taftes the good without the fall... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1778 - 410 pages
...day ; ..The whole amount of that enormous fame, A tale, that blends their glory with their fhame ! Know then this truth (enough for man to know) '* Virtue alone is happinefs below/' 310 The only point where human blifs ftands ftill, And taftes the good without the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 1164 pages
...the day; The whole amount of that enormous fame, A Tale, that blends their glory with their fhame ! Know then this truth (enough for Man to know) " Virtue alone is happinefs below." 310 The only point where human blifs ftands ftill, And taftes the good without the... | |
 | 1780 - 498 pages
...whofe line* on the lubjeft J wi|l tranfcribe for you, as you may n,ot hav? (hem at hand. • . / " Know then this truth (enough for man to know), Virtue alone is happinefs below ; The only point where human blifs (lands (lill, And tailes the good, without the fall... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1783 - 322 pages
...or arms of Queens who lay, How happy thofe to ruin, thefe betray. IBID. p. ')•. . HUMAN FELICITY. KNOW then this truth (enough for Man to know) " Virtue alone is happinefs below." The only point where human blifs ftands ftill, And taftes the good without the fall... | |
 | 1784 - 1282 pages
...opinion, that virtue was the foam* bonum of man ; and this opinion has been adopted by Mr. Pope : " Know then this truth, enough for man to know, " Virtue alone is happinefs below." I am rather inclined, notwithftanding, to adopt the qpini"1 of the learned and pious... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - English language - 1785 - 198 pages
...fpeak to them that know the law) how that the law hath dominion over a man, as long as he liveth f ? Know then this truth (enough for man to know) " Virtue alone is happinefs below J." This prophetic difcernment not only prefents them the barren profpeft of futurity... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1787 - 396 pages
...the day ; The whole amount of that enormous fame, ATale, that blends their glory with their fhame ! Know then this truth (enough for Man to know) " Virtue alone is Happinefs below," 310 Theonly point where human blifs (lands ftill, Andtaftes the good without the... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 398 pages
...the day; The whole amount of that enormous fame, A Tale, that blends their glory with their fhame ! Know then this truth (enough for Man to know) " Virtue alone is Happinefs below." 310 The only point wher-j human blifs flands ftill, And' taftes the good without... | |
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