 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
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1911 - 784 pages
...intent Is to give worth reward — vice punishment. 28 Beaumont and Fletcher : Captain. Act v. Sc. 5 Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these. 29 Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 21 Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows... | |
 | Maude Morrison Frank - English language - 1911 - 220 pages
...darkness and the cold, Was just that I was leaving home and my folks were growing old. 3 Some place their bliss in action, some in ease; Those call it pleasure, and contentment these. 4 He might ha' been that, and he might ha' been this; But they love and they hate him for what he is.... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1852 - 660 pages
...we must cut short our catalogue with one wholesale instance. In Pope's Essay on Man we read : — " Some, sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain ; Some, swell'd to gods, confess even virtue vain." 0 Faugerc, i, 172. t Faugere, ii, 108. Pascal had said : " Leg uns ont voulu renoncer... | |
 | Augusta Choate, Gertrude Hartman - English language - 1912 - 174 pages
...then, 'tis good to be a post. 69. I pray you, Sire, to let me have that honor. 70. Some place their bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these. 71. The Major had a sincere liking and regard for his sister-in-law, whom he pronounced, and with perfect... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...worm to weave. POPE — Essay on Man. Ep. III. L. 173. 10 Ask of the Learn'd the way? The Learn'd are ue Do paint the meadows with delight. Lootfs Labour'»...tufts, flowers purple, blue, and white; Lake sapp POPE— Essay on Man. Ep. IV. L. 19. 11 Ein Gelehrter hat keine Langweile. A scholar knows no ennui.... | |
 | Arnold Levitas - Printing - 1924 - 234 pages
...at home and no hindrance abroad; companions by night, in traveling, in the country. Some place their bliss in action, some in ease; those call it pleasure, and contentment these. The semicolon in a compound or complex sentence will separate the principal statements, which are not... | |
 | Arnold Levitas - Authorship - 1924 - 330 pages
...at home and no hindrance abroad; companions by night, in traveling, in the country. Some place their bliss in action, some in ease; those call it pleasure, and contentment these. The semicolon in a compound or complex sentence will separate the principal statements, which are not... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1926 - 306 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;...Virtue vain ; Or indolent, to each extreme they fall, as To trust in ev'ry thing, or doubt of all. Who thus define it, say they more or less Than this, that... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1926 - 310 pages
...of the Learn'd the way ? the Learn'd are blind ; This bids to serve, and that to shun, mankind; ao Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those...Virtue vain ; Or indolent, to each extreme they fall, as To trust in ev'ry thing, or doubt of all. Who thus define it, say they more or less Than this, that... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 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; Epistle 1v. Of the NATURE and STATE of MAN, with respect to HAPPINESS [P]. 8. mortal] The epithet is... | |
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