 | William Enfield - 1827 - 412 sider
...Sense, Lie iu three words, Health, Peace, and Competence. - . CHAP. XVI. • ON VIRTUE. JVNOW thou this truth, enough for man to know, " Virtue alone is Happiness below :" The only point where human bliss stands still - .^ And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1828 - 128 sider
...Interrogative point 1 „ x 2.) The Exclamation point ! y.) The Parenthesis ( ) ; as, " Are you sincere 7" " How excellent is a grateful heart !" "Know then this..." Virtue alone is happiness below." The following characters are also frequently used in composition. An Apostrophe, marked thus ' ; as, " tho', judg'd."... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 sider
...the -day ; The whole amount of that enormous fame, A tale that blends their glory with their shame ! Know then this truth (enough for man to know) 'Virtue alone is happiness below.' 310 The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fail to ill ; Where... | |
 | 1828 - 488 sider
...opinion, that virtue was the summum lonu.m of man ; and this has been adopted by Pope : — " KDOW thou this truth, enough for man to know, Virtue alone is happiness below." It is its own reward in this life, by the tranquillity of mind and the general esteem which are annexed... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1830 - 128 sider
...correspondence to the sense. These are, x.) The Interrogative point? x 2.) The Exclamation point ! y.) The Parenthesis ( ) ; as, " Are you sincere ?" " How..." Know then this truth, (enough for man to know,) 11 Virtue alone is happiness below." The following characters are also frequently used in composition.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 sider
...day ; The whole amount of that enormous fame, A tale, that blends their glory witli their shame ! t breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only... | |
 | Bertha Johnston, E. Lyell Earle - 1911 - 332 sider
...of the Bible old. — Emerson. The childhood shows the man As the morning shows the day. — Milton. Know then this truth (enough for man to know), "Virtue alone is happiness below." — Pope. For truth has such a face and such a mien, As to be lov'd needs only to be seen. — Dryden.... | |
 | 1915 - 1068 sider
...me of that which benefits him nothing, but which makes me poor indeed." Alexander Pope adds another: "Know then this truth, enough for man to know, Virtue alone is happiness below." There Is joy in life. We live, we move, we have our being. We enter life helpless and Innocent, unconscious... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 sider
...day; The whole amount of that enormous fame, A Tale, that blends their glory with their shame! vII. Know then this truth (enough for Man to know) 'Virtue alone is Happiness below.' 310 The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill, Where... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson - 1984 - 1572 sider
...things for such occasions. You must not pitch your flight higher than the pennywhistle elevation of s of a devo Either this, or declamatory verse, — or something patriodc, or something satirical, or something... | |
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The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit... 
