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" Parnassian laurels yield, Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? Where grows? where grows it not ? if vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. Fix'd to no spot is happiness sincere; 'Tis no where to be found, or ev'ry where ; 'Tis... "
An Essay on Man: By Alexander Pope, Esq. Enlarged and Improved by the Author ... - Page 88
by Alexander Pope - 1763 - 124 pages
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 430 pages
...culture, not the soil. Fix'd to no spot is Happiness sincere ; 15 'Tis no where to be found, or every where ; 'Tis never to be bought, but always free, And fled from Monarchs, ST. JOHN ! dwells with thee. Ask of the learn'd the way ? The learn'd are blind; This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind;...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 424 pages
...at all contradict what he had said to him concerning Happiness, in the beginning of the Epistle : " Tis never to be bought, but always free, And fled from monarchs, St. John ! dwells with thee." For there he compliments his virtue ; here he estimates the value of his politics, which he...
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An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1824 - 84 pages
...We ought to blame the culture, not the soil : Fix'd to no spot is happiness sincere, 15 'Tis nowhere to be found, or ev'ry where 'Tis never to be bought, but always free, AnJ, fled from monarch.*, St. John ! dwells with thee. Ask of the learn'd the way ? The learn'd are...
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Murray's English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the ...

Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Readers - 1825 - 316 pages
...culture,' not the soil. Fixd to no spot is happmess sincere ; 'Tis no where to he found, or ev'ry where'Tis never to be bought, but always free-, And, fled from monarchs, St. John ! dwells with thee. S. Ask of the Jearn'd the way. The learn'd are blind ; This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...the eulture, not the soil : Fix'd to no spot is happiness sineere, 'Tis nowhere to be found, or every t eneumber'd with her store ; And then the giver would monarehs, St John ! dwells with tliee. Ask of the leam'd the way. The leam'd are blind : This bids...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces of Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. Fix'd to no spot is happiness sincere ; 'Tis no where to be found, or ev'ry where ; 'Tis never to bo bought, but always free ; And, fled from monarchs, St. John ! dwells with thee. Ask of the learn'tf...
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Murray's English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the ...

Lindley Murray, John Walker - Children - 1826 - 314 pages
...ought to blame the culture, not the soil. Fixd to no spoils happiness sincere : 'Tis no where to he found, or ev'ry where , 'Tis never to be bought, but...free-. And, fled from monarchs, St. John ! dwells with thee. S. Ask of the learn'd the way. The learn'd are blind ; This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 286 pages
...vain our toiK, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. Fix'd to no spot is happiness sincere; 'Tis no where to be found, or ev'ry where » 'Tis...never to be bought, but always free ; And, fled from monarch's,- St. John ! dwells with thee. 3 Ask of the learn'd the way. The learn'd are blind; vv^ This...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry

Lindley Murray - 1826 - 264 pages
...our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil, Fjx'd to DO spot is happiness sincere ; 'Tie no where to be found, or ev'ry where ; 'Tis never to be bought, but always free ; And fled from monarcbs, St. John ! dwells with thee. {;>' •3. Ask of the learn 'd the way. The learn'd are blind;...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope ...: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...not the soil: Fix'd to no spot is happiness sincere, Tis no where to be found, or every where : TW Philosophy, that lean'd on Heaven before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no mo thce. I. Ask of the learn'd the way? The learn'd are blind : This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind...
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