| Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 452 pages
...infers from hence That such are happier,— shocks all common sense. 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 - 1830 - 500 pages
...cbain'd hi> country •ay, 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 virtue bread 7 ISO That, vice may merit, 'tie the price of toil ; The knave deserve« it, when lie till« the soil... | |
| Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...chain'd his country, say, Or he whose virtue sigh'd to lose a day? 20 "But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed." What then? Is the reward of virtue bread? That, vice may merit, 'tis the price of toil ; The knave deserves it, when he tills the soil. * Alluding... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1832 - 86 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...? 150 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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...perfection of the whole. But the passage exhibits a noble flow of poetry. ' But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed.' What then ? Is the reward of virtue...? 150 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... | |
| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 332 pages
...chain'd his country, eay, 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 virtue...? 150 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... | |
| George Rogers - Universalism - 1837 - 204 pages
...are not sufficient]; rewarded, nor the latter sufficiently punished. •' For what if virtue starves, while vice is fed, What then ? Is the reward of virtue bread !" — Pope. Solomon saith, " He that spareth the rod hateth his son," [and' so he does virtually —... | |
| Free thought - 1842 - 1124 pages
...nodding to its fall, For Charters' head reserve the hanging wall ? " But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed." What then ? 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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1844 - 94 pages
...chain'd his country, gay, 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 virtue...? 150 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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1846 - 328 pages
...chain'd 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 virtue...? 150 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... | |
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