 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...  The Book of Nature - Side 234af John Mason Good - 1826Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 sider
...consists in a conformity tu the order of Providence here, and a resignation to it here and hereafter. 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 sider
...consists in a conformity to the order of Providence here, and a resignation to it hereafter, 327, &c. 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 ;... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 464 sider
...vinxeris, consentiens et dissentiens, consonans et dissonans, unum etiam ex omnibus, omniaque ex uno." 46. O Happiness ! our being's end and aim ! Good, Pleasure, Ease, Content, whate'er thy name.'1' He begins his address to Happiness after the manner of the ancient hymns,']' by enumerating... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 sider
...all the cares of waking clay, And inconsistent dreams of day. HAPPINESS. IBOM POPE'S ESSAY ON MAH. OR 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Strutt - 1807 - 258 sider
...fashionable moderns, and the poets, can make as entertaining a tour as the best of them." CHAP. VIII. Oh, Happiness ! our being's end and aim, Good, Pleasure, Ease, Content, whate'er thy name, That something still that prompts th'eternal sigh, For which we bear to live and dare to die, Which... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 sider
...consists in a conformity to the order of Providence here, and a reiignation to it here and hereafter. O HAPPINESS ! our being's end and aim ! Good, pleasure, ease, content ! whate'er thy name: That some thing still which prompts the' eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 sider
...consists ill a conformity to the order of Providence here, and a relignation to it here and hereafter. O HAPPINESS ! our being's end and aim ! Good, pleasure, ease, content ! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the' eternal Sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die ; Which... | |
 | William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - 1811 - 446 sider
...first define what men mean by happiness, and this he does in the ornament of a poetic invocation : O happiness ! our being's end and aim, Good, pleasure, ease, content ! whate'er thy NAME, After the DEFINITION, that which follows next, in order of method, is the PROPOSITION, which here is,... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 444 sider
...first define what men mean by happiness, and this he does in the ornament of a poetic invocation : O happiness ! our being's end and aim, Good, pleasure, ease, content ! whate'er thy NAME. After the DEFINITION, that which follows next, in order of method, is the, PROPOSITION, which here... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1812 - 378 sider
...suffice To make men moral, good, and wise." &A.V.. SECTION III. The road to happiness open to all men. OH happiness! our being's end and aim ; Good, pleasure, ease, content ! whate'er thy name ;: That something still which prompts th' eternal sigh r For which we bear to live, or dare to die... | |
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