 | Henry Beebee Carrington - American literature - 1894 - 448 pages
...thee. 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 pain; Or, indolent, to each extreme they fall, To trust... | |
 | P. Goyen - English language - 1894 - 148 pages
...plural forms these and those are used in the same way, as : ' These are yours and those are mine.' (b) ' Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.' ' Those ' refers to the more remote ' some,' the people that place the bliss in action ; ' these '... | |
 | Charles John Plumptre - Elocution - 1895 - 524 pages
...their full extent, are not so gross as those of sense, nor so refined as those of the understanding. 2. Some place 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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 794 pages
...bounds. POPE. For thee the fates, severely kind, ordain A cool suspense from pleasure or from pain. POPE. Some place the bliss in action, some in ease; Those call it pleasure, and contentment these. POPE. Howe'er, 'tis well that while mankind Through life's perverse meanders errs, He can imagined... | |
 | Charles Mackay - English poetry - 1896 - 680 pages
...thee. Ask of the Leam'd the way, the Leam'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 pain, Some, swell'd to Gods, confess e'en virtue vain :... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...is not the thing ; Bliss is the same in subject or in king. t. POPE— Essay on Man. Ep. IV. L. 57. ycidas. L. 78. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of no u. POPE — Essay on Man. Ep. IV. L. 21. The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that had... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 pages
...thee. Ask of the Learn'd the way, the Leam'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 pain, Some, swell'd to Gods, confess e'en virtue vain :... | |
 | John Piersol McCaskey - American literature - 1897 - 592 pages
...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 pain ; Or, indolent, to each extreme they fall, To trust... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1898 - 122 pages
...of the learn'd the way? the learn 'd are blind ; This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind ;l 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 swelled to gods, confess e'en virtue vain ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 141 pages
...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 ; Or indolent, to each extreme they fall, To trust... | |
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