 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1834 - 220 pages
...home-out-of-doors (for such a garden should be), with least sacrifice of in-door comfort and convenience. When Epicurus to the world had taught, That pleasure was the chiefest good; (And was perhaps i' th' right, if rightly understood) His life he to his doctrines brought— And in... | |
 | Giles Fletcher - English poetry - 1836 - 442 pages
...taught, That pleasure was the chiefest-good, (And was perhaps i' th' right, if rightly understood,) His life he to his doctrine brought, And in a garden's shade that sov'reign pleasure sought : Whoever a true epicure would be, May there find cheap and virtuous luxury.... | |
 | Richard Cattermole - Christian poetry, English - 1836 - 436 pages
...pay, or give ? They, like all other poets, live Without reward, or thanks for their obliging pains ; When Epicurus to the world had taught, That pleasure was the chiefest good, (And was perhaps i" th' right, if rightly understood,) His life he to his doctrine brought, And in... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1837 - 466 pages
...home-out-of-doors (for such a garden should be), with least sacrifice of in-door comfort and convenience. When Epicurus to the world had taught. That pleasure was the chiefest good j (And was perhaps f lh' right, if rightly understood) And in his garden's shade that sovereign pleasure... | |
 | Gems - 1841 - 624 pages
...prey. The whistling winds add their less artful strains, And a grave bass the murmuring fountains play. When Epicurus to the world had taught That pleasure was the chiefest good, (And was perhaps i' th' right, if rightly understood,) His life he to his doctrine brought, And in... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Sicily (Italy) - 1848 - 264 pages
...taught That Pleasure was the Chiefest Good, (And was, perhaps, i' t1t right, if rightly understood,) His life he to his doctrine brought, And in a garden's shade that sovereign pleasure sought. " Where does the wisdom and the power divine In a more bright and sweet reflection... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1848 - 268 pages
...Hall feel the weight of it many a day, Unless he call in sin or vanity, To help to bear 't away. " When Epicurus to the world had taught That Pleasure was the Chiefest Good, (And was, perhaps, i' th' right, if rightly understood,) His life he to his doctrine brought, And in... | |
 | Edmund Phipps - Great Britain - 1850 - 516 pages
...OF AN' ELEGANT HIND, EQUAL TO IIIUII EUrLOTMEKr, BUT FREE FROM AMBITION, AND PREFERRING FRIYACT. " When Epicurus to the world had taught That pleasure was the chiefest good, And was, perhaps, i' the right, if rightly understood ; His life he to his doctrine brought, And in... | |
 | Edmund Phipps - Great Britain - 1850 - 534 pages
...taught That pleasure was the chiefest good, And was, perhaps, i' the right, if rightly understood ; His life he to his doctrine brought, And in a garden's shade that sov'reign pleasure sought." COWI^T. THOUGH in my last dream I seemed to take my leave of the general... | |
 | English literature - 1852 - 460 pages
...all which rank ambition breeds, Which seem such beauteous flowers, and are such poisonous weeds ? i When Epicurus to the world had taught That pleasure was the chiefest good, (And was perhaps i' th' right, if rightly understood), His life he to his doctrine brought, And in... | |
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That pleasure was the chiefest good, (And was, perhaps, i' th' right, if rightly understood) His life he to his doctrine brought, And in a garden's shade that sovereign pleasure sought : Whoever a true epicure would be, May there find cheap and virtuous... 
