 | Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1820 - 72 pages
...ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these; Some, sunk to beats, find pleasure end in pain; Some swell'd to gods, confess e'en virtue vain; Or indolent, to each extreme they fall, To trust in ev'ry thing, or doubt of all. Who thus define it, say they more or less Than this, that... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 72 pages
...Those call it pleasure, and contentment these ; Somfr, sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain : Some, swell'd to gods, confess e'en virtue vain; Or indolent, to each extreme they fall, 25 Who thus define it, say they more or less Than this, that happiness is happiness ? Take nature's... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822
...ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these: Some sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain; Some swell'd to gods, confess e'en virtue vain! Or indolent, to each extreme they fall, To trust in every thing, or doubt of all. Who thus define it, say they more or less Than this, that... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1822 - 274 pages
...ease ; Those call it pleasure, and contentment these. Some sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain ; Some swell'd to gods, confess e'en virtue vain : Or indolent, to each extreme [hey fall, To trust in ev'ry thing, or doubt of all.*\ . Who thus define it, say they more or less... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 300 pages
...ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these; Some, sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain; Some, swell'd to gods, confess e'en virtue vain; Or indolent, to each extreme they fall, To trust in every thing, or doubt of all. Who thus define it, say they more or less Than this, That... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 524 pages
...ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these : Some, sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain; Some, swell'd to gods, confess e'en virtue vain; Or, indolent, to each extreme they fall, To trust in every thing, or doubt of all. Who thus define it, say they more or less Than this, that... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828
...ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these : Some, sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain ; Some, swell'd to gods, confess e'en virtue vain : Or, indolent, to each extreme tl& fall, To trust in every thing, or doubt of all. Who thus define it, say they more or less Then... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 300 pages
...ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these; Some, sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain; Some, swell'd to gods, confess e'en virtue vain; Or indolent, to each extreme they fall, To trust in every thing, or doubt of all. Who thus define it, say they more or less Than this, That... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson - 1830 - 484 pages
...Those call it pleasure, and contentment these. S- 'ЦК, sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain : ades aro | / eitreme they fall, To trust in every thing, or doubt of all. Who thus define it, say they more or leas... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 442 pages
...ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these. Some, sunk to heasts, find pleasure end in pain : stent with themselves, ver. 1, ta. Instances of contrarieties given, even To trust in every thing, or douht of all. Who thus define it, say they more or less Than this, that... | |
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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 ; Some sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain ; Some swell'd to gods, confess e'en virtue vain ! Or indolent,... 
