 OH happiness ! our being's end and aim ! Good, pleasure, ease, content ? whate'er thy name : That something still which prompts th' eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die, Which still so near us, yet beyond us lies, O'er-look'd, seen...  The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections, Additions ... - Page 64by Alexander Pope - 1804 - 754 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1824 - 514 pages
...duty, in what manner is he to seek it, — that is to say, in what objects is he to hope to find it? O Happiness ! our being's end and aim ! Good, pleasure,...whate'er thy name ! That something still which prompts the eternal sigh. For which we bear to live, or dare to die ! Which still so near us, yet beyond us... | |
 | Martin M'Dermot, Martin MacDermot - Acting - 1824 - 430 pages
...that golden medium where happiness has taken up her abode ; — That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die ; — Which still so near ns, yet beyond us lies, O'erlooked, seen double, by the fool and wise. POPE. This is the very medium... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 424 pages
...ornament of a poetic invocation ; in which the several names that Happiness goes by are enumerated : " Oh Happiness ! our being's end and aim ! Good, Pleasure, Ease, Content! whate'er thy NAME." After the DEFINITION, that which follows next, is the PROPOSITION, which is, that human Happiness consists... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...ornament of a poetic invocation ; in which the several names that Happiness goes by are enumerated : " Oh Happiness ! our being's end and aim ! Good, Pleasure, Ease, Content! whate'er thy NAME." After the DEFINITION, that which follows next, is the PROPOSITION, which is, that human Happiness consists... | |
 | Martin M'Dermot, Martin MacDermot - Acting - 1824 - 430 pages
...her abode ; — That something still winch prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to liv^, ot dare to die ; — Which still so near us, yet beyond us lies, O'erlooked, seen double, by the fool and wise. POPE. This is the very medium which Pope himself describes... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Oral reading - 1824 - 308 pages
...content 1 whute'er thy name ; That something still which prompts th' eternal sigti5 For which we b?ar tn live, or dare to die ; Which still so near us, yet beyond ns lies, O'erlook'd, seen double, by the fool and wise; Plant OT celestial 'eed, ildropi below, Say,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...suffice To make men moral, good, and wise."SECTION III. . The road to happiness open to all men. Šn happiness ! our being's end and aim ! Good, pleasure,...die : Which still so near us, yet beyond us lies, O'erlook'd, seen double, by the fool and wise ; Plant of celestial seed, if dropt below, Say, in what... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Readers - 1825 - 316 pages
...the field ? Good, pleasure, ease, content! Whate'er thy name ; That something still which prorupts th' eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare...die : Which still so near us, yet beyond us lies, O'erlook'd, seen double, by t&e fool and wise; Plant of celestial seed, if dropt below, Say, in what... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...of Providence bere, and a resignation to it here and hereafter, ver. 226, &с, Oн Happiness -' nur being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content!...That something still which prompts th' eternal sigh, por which we bear to live, or dare to die ; Which sШ1 so near us, yet beyond us lies, O'erlook'd,... | |
 | John Kitto - 1825 - 244 pages
...great worm, before I filled the space I had made. Plymouth Workhonse, May 2, 1823. 0 Happiness ! onr being's end and aim ! Good, Pleasure, Ease, Content,...whate'er thy name : That something still which prompts ih' eternal sigh, For which we Mar to live or dare to die. Which still Ťo near us, yet beyond us lies,... | |
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