 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...their slumbers in the pompous sha.k. Alas ! not dazzled with their noon- tide ray, Compute the mom ted by Thomas Davison for Thomas Tegg shanu ! Know then this truth (enough for man to know) " Virtue alone is happiness below." The only... | |
 | Samuel Oliver (jun.) - 1825 - 418 pages
...sentence obliquely, and which may be omitted without injury to the grammatick construction ; as ; " Know then this truth, (enough for man to know,) Virtue alone is happiness below." " To gain a posthumous reputation is to save four, or five letters, (for what is... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1825 - 82 pages
...Exclamation point ! The Parenthefis ( ) as, " Are you fincere J" " How excellent is a grateful heart !" " Know then this truth, (enough for man to know,) " Virtue alone is ha)ipinels below." The following characters are alfo frequently ufed in competition. An Apoftrophe,... | |
 | Thomas Brown - Intellect - 1826 - 522 pages
...halls invade, And haunt their slumbers in the pompous shade. Alas! not dazzled with their noontide raj, Compute the morn and evening to the day, — The whole...A tale that blends their glory with their shame.' Of kindred character with moderation in our wishes, which regards tbe future only, is the habit of... | |
 | C D. Golland, Mrs. C. D. Haynes Golland - 1827 - 594 pages
...consists only in the practice of virtue ; and now, to dismiss the subject, in the words of the poet — ' Know then, this truth, enough for man to know, , Virtue alone is happiness below." As the hour was now getting late, he I 3 did not resume his reading, and the conversation... | |
 | Montgomery Robert Bartlett - Education - 1827 - 274 pages
...collateral fact, is brought into the body of a sentence, it is enclosed in parenthetic lines. Thus: Know then this truth, (enough for man to know,) Virtue alone is happiness below. He loves nobody, (I speak of friendship,) who is not jealous when he has partners... | |
 | Bertha Johnston, E. Lyell Earle - Education - 1911 - 332 pages
...of the Bible old. — Emerson. The childhood shows the man As the morning shows the day. — Milton. Know then this truth (enough for man to know), "Virtue alone is happiness below." — Pope. For truth has such a face and such a mien, As to be lov'd needs only to... | |
 | Railroad conductors - 1915 - 1068 pages
...me of that which benefits him nothing, but which makes me poor indeed." Alexander Pope adds another: "Know then this truth, enough for man to know, Virtue alone is happiness below." There Is joy in life. We live, we move, we have our being. We enter life helpless... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...and your prey divide' Alas ! not dazled with his Noontide ray, 35 Compute the Morn and Evening of his Day: The whole amount of that enormous Fame A Tale ! that blends the Glory with the Shame ! 38. Tale] 'Tally', as well as 'story': cf. 'compute', l. 36. Epigrams Occasioned... | |
 | Noah Webster - Banks and banking - 1802 - 296 pages
...— the certain evanescence of popular fame— • " quam vana, aut ieviaura mobile vulgusest. ! I" " The whole amount of that enormous fame, A tale, that blends their glory .vith their shame," TIME and patience would fail me, to enter into a minute examination of all the... | |
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The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit... 
