 Ask of the Learn'd the way? The Learn'd are blind; This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind; "° Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it Pleasure, and Contentment these...  An essay on man. Cornish ed - Page 74by Alexander Pope - 1798Full view - About this book
 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 pages
...free, And, fled from monarchs, St. John dwells with thee. Ask of the Learn'd the way, the Leam'd are blind, This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind...pleasure end in pain, Some, swell'd to Gods, confess e'en virtue vain : Or indolent, to each extreme they fall, To trust in ev'rything, or doubt of all.... | |
 | John Piersol McCaskey - American literature - 1897 - 592 pages
...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...; Some, sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain ; Or, indolent, to each extreme they fall, To trust in everything, or doubt of all. Who thus define... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1898 - 122 pages
...of the learn'd the way? the learn 'd are blind ; This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind ;l 20 Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those...Some sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain ; Some swelled to gods, confess e'en virtue vain ; Or indolent, to each extreme they fall, 25 To trust in... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 141 pages
...Ask of the learn'd the way ! The learn'd are blind ; This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind; 20 Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those...these ; Some sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain ; Or indolent, to each extreme they fall, To trust in ev'ry thing, or doubt of all. Who thus define... | |
 | Cyphron Seymour Coler - Character - 1899 - 252 pages
...accordance with her laws. "Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast, And all is well from east to west.'! "Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these; Take Nature's path and mad opinions leave, All states may reach it and all heads conceive; Observe... | |
 | Noah Knowles Davis - Ethics - 1900 - 312 pages
...our toil ; We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. Ask of the learned the way ? The learned are blind ; This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind...Some, sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain, Some, swelled to gods, confess e'en virtue vaiii ; Or indolent, to each extreme they fall, To trust in everything,... | |
 | James Mollison Milne - English language - 1900 - 400 pages
...refers to the nearer antecedent in the sentence ; that to the antecedent more remote ; as : — 1. Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure; and contentment, these. — Pope. 2. Farewell, my friends ; farewell, my foes ; My peace with these, my love with those. —... | |
 | Elias J. MacEwan - English language - 1900 - 330 pages
..."Katie." "That were strange. ' What surname?" "Willows." "No!" "That's my name." 10. Some place their bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment, these ; Who thus define it, say they more or less Than this, that happiness is happiness ? 11. But fortune's... | |
 | Theodore Low De Vinne - Authorship - 1901 - 498 pages
...hath killed her beasts ; she hath mingled her wine ; she hath furnished her table. Some place their bliss in action, some in ease ; Those call it pleasure, and contentment these. In the first example the semicolon is needed because each member of the sentence is nearly complete... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1902 - 860 pages
...free, And, fled from monarchs, St John, dwells with thee. Ask of the learned the way ! The learned are blind ; This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind...sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain ; Some, swelled to gods, confess e'en virtue vain ; Or indolent, to each extreme they fall, To trust in everything,... | |
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