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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... "
Moral essays - Page 109
by Alexander Pope - 1751
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An English Grammar: Comprehending the Principles and Rules of the ..., Volume 1

Lindley Murray - English language - 1808 - 526 pages
...flatter yourselves with the hope of perfect happiness; for there is no such thing in the world." • " Where grows? — where grows it not? If vain our toil, " We ought to blame the culture, not the soil : " Fix'd to no spol is happiness sincere; " Tis no where to be found, or ev'ry where." CHAPTER...
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Broome, Pope, Pitt, Thomson

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...in the flaming mine? 10 Twin'd with the wreaths Parnassian laurels yield, Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? Where grows ? where grows it not ?...vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil : Fix'd to no spot is happiness sincere, Tisno where to be found, on-very where : Tis never to...
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Elements of Elocution: In which the Principles of Reading and Speaking are ...

John Walker - Elocution - 1810 - 394 pages
...wreaths Parnassian laurels yield, Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? Where grows ? where grows not ? if vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. Pope's Essay on Man, ep. iv. Here the phrase, where grows, assumes the ising inflection, and...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1810 - 262 pages
...in the flaming mine ? Twin'd with the wreaths Parnassian laurels yield) Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? Where grows ? where grows it not ? if vain our toi!> We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. Fix'd to no spot is happiness sincere, 'Tis never...
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The Gleaner: A Series of Periodical Essays, Volume 2

Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 446 pages
...dedicate a few hours to reflection before he renewed his search. . VISITOR, No. 25. . No. LXXXVIII. Where grows ? Where grows it not ? if vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil ; Fijt'd to no spot i= happiness sincere, , 'Tis no where to be found, or every where. POPE. HE...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1812 - 378 pages
...in the flaming mine ? Twin'd with the wreaths Parnassian laurels yield, Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? Where grows ? where grows it not ?...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 ; 'T 7 ^ never...
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The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...the flaming mine ? 10 Twin'd with the wreaths Parnassian laurels yield, Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? Where grows ? — where grows it not...vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil : Fix'd to no spot is happiness sincere, 15 'Tis no where to be found, or ev'ry where : 'Tis never...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1813 - 276 pages
...in the flaming mine ? Twin'd with the wreaths Parnassian laurels yield, Or reup'd in iron harvests of the field ? • •Where grows ? Where grows it not ? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the eulture, not the soil. Tix'd to no spot is happiness sineere, 'Tis no where to be fm'nd, or ev'ry where:...
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Elegant poems. Pope's Essay on man, Blair's Grave, Gray's Elegy, Goldsmith's ...

Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...grow ? Fair op'ning to some court's propitious shine, Or deep with di'raonds in the tlaming mine t 10 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, 15 'Tis no where to be found, or ev'ry where ; 'Tis never...
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The Reader: Containing I. The Art of Delivery ... a Selection of Lessons in ...

Abner Alden - English language - 1814 - 222 pages
...wreaths Parnassian laurels yield, Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? • • • Where giows ? 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 every where : 'Tis never...
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