| 1881 - 264 ページ
...Ask of the learned the way ? the learned 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 ; Some, sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain : Some, swelled to gods, confess e'en virtue vain... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1881 - 150 ページ
...Ask of the learn'd the way ? The learn'd are blind ; This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind; 20 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 ev'n virtue vain ; Or... | |
| 1881 - 578 ページ
...Ask of the learned the way ? The learned are blind ; This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind ; tice of the Church. The causes of superstition are : pleasing and sensual rites and ceremon ; Some sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain ; Some swelled to gods, confess even virtue vain !... | |
| Passages, John Allen Giles - 1881 - 744 ページ
...Ask of the learned the way ! the laarned 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 : Some, sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain : Some, swell'd to gods, confess e'en Virtue vain... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 ページ
...vice punishment. B. ff F. dipt * A beauiiful rale eighieen miles from Florence. ACTION — coniinued. Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment ihe&e.Pope,EM iv.2l. The body sins not ; 'tis the will That makes the action good or ill. Herrick,... | |
| Charles John Plumptre - 1881 - 524 ページ
...extent, arc not so gross as those of sense, nor so refined as those of the understanding. 2. Some//i7flt the bliss in action, some in ease : Those call it pleasure, and contentment these. RULE XV. — When prepositions are placed in opposition to each other, and all of them are intimately... | |
| Evan Daniel - 1881 - 420 ページ
...two things mentioned, eg ' This tree (one near the speaker) is larger than that.' Some place their bliss in action, some in ease ; Those call it pleasure, and contentment these. — Pope. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul ; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1881 - 842 ページ
...way I Th« learned arc blind ; . This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind ; Some place the bl(§a in action, some In ease ; Those call It pleasure, and contentment these ; Rome, punk to bcnfcts, flnd pleasure end in palu ; Some swelled to gods, confess e'en virtue Vftia... | |
| Marcius Willson - 1882 - 558 ページ
...Ask of the learned the way ? The learned 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 ; Some, sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain ; Some, swelled to gods, confess e'en virtue vain... | |
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