 | Daniel Dewar - Christian ethics - 1826 - 620 pages
...wreaths Parnassian laurels yield, Or reap'd in iron harvest of the field ? Where grows, — where grows it not ? — If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, oot the soil. and fleeting, the supreme and ultimate good of man. These answers, beside, proceed on... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 262 pages
...wreaths 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 e»'ry where* ; 'Tis... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...define it, say they more or less Than this, that happiness is happiness ? POPE. 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. POPE. Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1878 - 138 pages
...wreaths Parnassian lawrels 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 never... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1879 - 130 pages
...wreaths Parnassian laurels yield, Or reaped 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 ; Fixed to no spot is happiness sincere, 15 'Tis no where to be found, or every where : 'Tis never... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1879 - 428 pages
...Parnassian laurels yield,. Or reaped 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 : Fixed to no spot is Happiness sincere ; Tis nowhere to be found, or everywhere ; . "Tis never... | |
 | Aristos Philadelphus - Metaphysics - 1880 - 272 pages
...content ! whate'er thy name ; Say in what mortal soil thou deign'st to grow ? Where grows, where grows it not ! If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil : Some placeth bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these. Obvious... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...wreaths Parnassian laurels yield, Or reaped in iron harvests of the field ? Where grows ? — where grows it not soil : Fixed to no spot is happiness sincere ; 'T is nowhere to be found, or everywhere : 'T is never... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1881 - 150 pages
...wreaths Parnassian lawrels 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 never... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 pages
...seed ! If dropt below, Say in what mortal soil thou dcign'st to grow ? . . . Where grows ! where grows it not ? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil ; Fixed to no spot is Happiness sincere, 'Tis nowhere to be found or everywhere ; . . . Ask of... | |
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