| David Booth - 1831 - 408 ページ
...whole: Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but for MM, were active to no end." ***** " Some place the bliss in action, some in ease ; Those call it pleasure, and contentment these." Pope. A regulation of a somewhat similar nature is observed, when two pairs of Antithetical clauses... | |
| Samuel B. EMMONS - 1832 - 168 ページ
...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; Some, sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pam ; Some, swell'd to gods, confess e'en virtue vaia; Or... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1832 - 86 ページ
...the learn'd the way ? The learn'd are blind ; This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind ; 20 Borne place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these ; Borne, sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in paint Some, swell'd to gods, confess e'en virtue vain;... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1832 - 260 ページ
...Ask of the learn'd the way. The learn'd are blind 5 This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind : Some place the bliss in action, some in ease ; Those call it pleasure, and contentment theg* : Some sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain ; Some swell'd to gods, confess ev'n virtue... | |
| James Flamank - 1833 - 414 ページ
...— These are interesting questions ; the answers, however, have been exceedingly numerous : — " 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 Tain."... | |
| Noah Webster - 1833 - 202 ページ
...[self love] its object would devour, This [reason] taste the honey and not wound the flower." .Pope. " Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these." — Ibm. The poets sometimes contrast these substitutes in a similar manner, to denote individuals... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1833 - 312 ページ
...that stands as immediate nominative to a verb. As, Prosperity gains friends, adversity tries them. Some place the bliss in action, some in ease ; Those call it pleasure, and contentment these. Here the words in Italic take no visible pause after them, without violence to grammatical relation.... | |
| Samuel Kirkham - 1833 - 240 ページ
...; as, " Both wealth and poverty are temptations ; that tends to CJ.cita pride, this, discontent." " Some place the bliss in action, some in ease ; " Those call it pleasure, and contentment, these." They, those. As it is the office of the personal they to represent a noun previously introduced to... | |
| Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 ページ
...her very ruins.. tell the history of times gone by, and every mouldering stone . . is a chronicle. Some . . place the bliss in action, some, in ease;...Those . . call it pleasure, and contentment, these. Remarks. — In those places distinguished by the dots, in the foregoing examples, it would be improper... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 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... | |
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