 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 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 - 1860 - 60 pages
...; 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, —... | |
 | Jacob Lowres - 1862 - 192 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 —... | |
 | John Antrobus (essayist.) - 1862 - 150 pages
...it Pleasure, and Contentment these. Some, sunk to beasts, find Pleasure end in Pain ; Some, swelled 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 ? —... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 334 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... | |
 | 1866 - 328 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 - 1867 - 626 pages
...; 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 everything, or doubt of all. Who thus define it, say they more or less Than this, — that... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 72 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 everything, or doubt of all. Who thus define it, say they more or less Than this, that... | |
 | English poetry - 1873 - 390 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 everything, or doubt of all. Who thus define it, say they more or less Than this, that... | |
 | Charles John Plumptre - 1876 - 418 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 everything, or doubt of all. 5. But mutual wants this Happiness increase ; All Nature's... | |
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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,... 
