 Ask of the Learn'd the way? The Learn'd are blind; 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...  An essay on man. Cornish ed - Page 74by Alexander Pope - 1798Full view - About this book
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1828 - 262 pages
..., fled from monarchs , St. John ! dwells with thee 3. Ask of the learn'd the way . The learn'd are blind ; This bids to serve , and that to shun mankind : Some place the bliss in action , gome in ease ; Those call it pleasure , and contentment these : Some sunk to beasts, find pleasure... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1829 - 216 pages
...And, lied from monarchs, St. John ! dwells with thee. 3. Ask of the learn 'd th? way. The learn'd are blind ; This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind:...they fall, To trust in ev'ry thing, or doubt of all. 4. Who thus define it, say they more or less Than this, that happiness is happiness? Take nature's... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - English language - 1829 - 318 pages
...dwells with theei 3. Ask of the learn'd the way« Tlie Icarn'd are blind ; , This bids to serve, jind that to shun mankind : Some place the bliss in action,...pleasure, and contentment these : Some sunk to beasts, And pleasure end in pain ; Some swell'd to gods, confess ev'n virtue vain; Or indolent, to each extreme... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 852 pages
...grief, an interval of woe. Drydcn, R. ' Aik of the leam'd the way ; the loam'd are blind; This bide to serve, and that to shun mankind ; Some place the...ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these. Pop«. Euay on Man. Upon my Hiking her who it was, she told me it was a very grave elderly gentleman,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 828 pages
...loud praise, and friend to learned case, Content with science in the vale of peace. Pope'i Epullei. Some place the bliss in action, some in ease; Those call it pleasure, and contentment the«. Id. Яшуг The shield was not long after incrustad with a nt» mst, and is the same, a cut... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1830 - 256 pages
...And', fled from monarchs', St. John' ! dwells with thee*. S Ask of the learn'd the way\ The learn'd are blind* ; This bids to serve', and that to shun mankind*...Some swell'd to gods', confess ev'n virtue vain* : Or indolenf , to each extreme they fall', To trust in ev'ry thing', or doubt of all\ 4 Who thus define... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...And, fled from monarchs, St. John! dwells with thee. 3 Ask of the learn'd the way? The learn'd are blind: This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind;...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.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...And, fled from monarchs, ST. JOÏIN 1 dwells with thee. Ask of the learned the way I Tho learned are angel*, virtue more divine. Ah ! how unjust ; I POPE.] ENGLISH LITERATURE. 179 The 'Essay on' Han' Is in four Epistles, the first of which was... | |
 | James Lackington - Booksellers and bookselling - 1830 - 472 pages
...satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient, for he that is content wants nothing." " Some place the bliss in action, some in ease ; Those...pleasure end in pain ; Some, swell'd to gods, confess e'en virtue vain." POPE. I continued the above self-denying life until I left Bristol, which was on... | |
 | 1830 - 372 pages
...abundantly sufficient, for he that is content wants nothing." " Some place the bliss in action, some m ease ; Those call it pleasure, and contentment these...pleasure end in pain ; Some, swell'd to gods, confess e'en virtue vain." POPE. I continued the above self-denying life until I left Bristol, which was on... | |
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