 | Goold Brown - English language - 1848 - 324 pages
...precepts all your business lies Would you be great be virtuous and be wise But sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed What then is the reward of virtue bread A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be prais'd But wisdom is... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...whose virtue sigh'd to lose a day ! " 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... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1835 - 320 pages
...that draws all to agree, And drawn supports, upheld by God or t/ice ? But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed: What then, ? — is the reward of virtue bread? 4. The metrical accent of poetry is subordinate to sense, and to established usage in pronunciation.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 94 pages
...his country , say, Or he whose Virtue sigh'd to lose a day ? VI. « But sometimes Virtue starves , while Vice is fed. » What then ? Is the reward of...Vice may merit , 'tis the price of toil ; The knave deserves it , when he tills the soil , V. Ce inonde, si propre pour les scélérats, ne vous contente... | |
 | Goold Brown - English language - 1851 - 324 pages
...precepts all your business lies Would you be great be virtuous and be wise But sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed What then is the reward of virtue bread A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be prais'd , But wisdom is... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...chain'd his country, say Or he whoso virtue sigh'd to lose a day ' " But sometimes Virtue starves, t That, Vice may merit, 'tis the price of toil; The knave deserves it, when he tills the soil ; The... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...chained 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 ;... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...kind of food thy choice, To which necessity confines thy price. I)ryden. 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. Pope. PRIDE. 511 PRIDE. AN eagle, towering in his pride of place,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 336 pages
...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... | |
 | 1855 - 326 pages
...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 bread 1 That vice may merit, 'tis the price of toil, The knave deserves it when he tills the soil ; Conventional... | |
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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 for kings, or dives for gain. The good man may be weak, be indolent; Nor is his claim to plenty, but content. 
