 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1796 - 382 pages
...flumbers in the pompous ftiade: Alas ! not dazzled with their noon-tide ray, Compute the morn and ev'ning to the day ; The whole amount of that enormous fame, A tale, that blends their glory with their fhame ! I have extra£ted the whole of this fublime invective, that the particular afpect of our fatirift... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 574 pages
...the day ; The whole amount of that enormous fame, A talc, that blends their glory with their Ihamt! Know then this truth — (enough for man to know) " Virtue alone is happincfs below." The only point where human blifs (rands flill, And talle« the good without the fall... | |
 | Mr. Addison - Anecdotes - 1797 - 712 pages
...Good, • . Or change admits, or nature lets it fall; Short and but rare, till man improv'd it all. Know then this truth (enough for man to know) Virtue alone, is happinefs below. The only point where human blifs Hands ftill, And taftes the good without the fall to ill; Where only... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pages
...slumbers in the pompous shade. Alas ! not dazzled with their noontide ray, Compute the morn and ev'ning to the day ; The whole amount of that enormous fame,...this truth (enough for man to know) " Virtue alone is happiness below." The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall... | |
 | Mary De La Garde, Sarah Guppy - 1800 - 112 pages
...are thus elegantly pointed out by that charming poet who is fo juftly the boaft of. his country. " Know then this truth (enough for man to know) " Virtue alone is happinefs below !" The only point where human blifs ilands ftill, And tafi.es the good without the fall to ill ; Where... | |
 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...sl.'mbers in the pompous shade. Alas ! not dazzled in their noon-tide ray, Compute the morn and ev'ning to the day; The whole amount of that enormous fame, A tale, that blen !s their glory with their shame! Know then this 'ruth (enough for man to know) " Virtue alone... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...in the pompous shade. Alas ! not dazzled with their noontide ray, 305 Compute the morn and ev'ning to the day ; The whole amount of that enormous fame,...truth, (enough for man to know.) « Virtue alone is happiness below :" 319 The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 492 pages
...invade, And haunt their (lumbers in the pompous fhade. Alas ! not dazzled with thrir noon-tide ray, 305 Compute the morn and evening to the day ; The whole amount of that enormous fame, fi. Tale, that blends their glory with their fhamc ! Know then this truth (enough for Man to know)... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 496 pages
...invade, And haunt their flumhen in the pompous fhade. Alas ! not dazzled with their noon-tide ray, 305 Compute the morn and evening to the day { The whole amount of that tnormous fame, A Tale, that blende their glory with their fhame ! Know then this truth (enough for... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 348 pages
...the body of a fentence obliquely, and which may be omitted without injuring the conftruftion : as, " Know then this truth, (enough for man to know,) Virtue alone is happinefs below." " And was the ranfom paid ? It was : and paid (What can exalt his bounty more?) for thee." "To gain... | |
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The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit... 
