 | James MacGrigor Allan - 1863 - 344 pages
...disorder upon earth ; thirdly, in rewarding virtue with worldly pelf ! " But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed. What then ? Is the reward of virtue bread ? What nothing earthly gives or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine and the heartfelt joy. Is virtue's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 334 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 ? That vice may merit ; 'tis the price of toil ; The knave deserves it when he tills the soil, The... | |
 | Committee of Arrangements for the Ter-centenary Celebration of the Birth of Shakspeare (Lowell, Mass.) - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1864 - 64 pages
...certainly did not intend to plead the cause of Eevealed religion:— " But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed; What, then? Is the reward of virtue bread?" t * Macbeth, Act IV., Scene II. And is not the view that Shakspeare takes at times, though a melancholy,... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - Conduct of life - 1875 - 494 pages
...sometimes was at a moral argument, has had skill enough to tell us why : — " 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 if he tills the soil. What nothing... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...stronger effort of his power, And justly set the gem above the flower. POPt 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. 599 Amidst... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - Conduct of life - 1875 - 346 pages
...sometimes was at a moral argument, has had skill enough to tell us why : — " But sometimes Virtue starves while Vice is fed. What then ? Is the reward of Virtue bread? That Vice may merit, 'tis ihe price of toil, The knave deserves it if he tills the soil. What nothing... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 576 pages
...equal will appear, When those are placed in fiape, and these in fear. " But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed"; " What then is the reward of virtue, — bread I That vice may merit, 't is the price of toil, The knave deserves it when he tills the soil." What... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 840 pages
...chain'd his country, «ay, Or he whose virtue sigh'd to lose a day ? " But sometimes Virtue starves, n air; High ? That, Vice may merit, 'tis the price of toil ; The knave deserves it, when he tills the soil ; The... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 630 pages
...equal will appear, When those are placed in Twpe, and these in fear. " But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed " ; " What then is the reward of virtue, — bread ? That vice may merit, 't is the price of toil, The knave deserves it when he tills the soil." What... | |
 | Hermann Marcus Kottinger - Christianity - 1877 - 334 pages
...chain'd his country, say, Or he whose virtues sighed to loose a day ?* " But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed." What then ? Is the reward of virtue bread? *One evening, as Titus remembered that he had not conferred a benefit upon any man ; he exclaimed :... | |
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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. 
