 | John Mackay Wilson - 1863 - 612 sider
...right, Of vice or virtue, whether blest or curst; * / Which meets contempt, or which compassion first; Count all the advantage prosperous vice attains — 'Tis but what virtue flies from and disdains.' " ' It is, it is ! ' shouted Mr Darsy, in ecstasy. ' Enough, my dear sir, enough,' he said, extending... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 334 sider
...or virtue, whether blest or curst, Which meets contempt, or which compassion first ? Count all th' advantage prosperous vice attains, 'Tis but what virtue flies from and disdains : And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want, which is, to pass for good. O blind... | |
 | 1866 - 328 sider
...or virtue, whether blest or curst, Which meets contempt, or which compassion first ? Count all th' advantage prosperous vice attains, 'Tis but what virtue flies from and disdains : And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want, which is, to pass for good. 0 blind... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 sider
...right ? Of vice or virtue, whether blest or curst, Which meets contempt, or which compassion first? Count all the advantage prosperous vice attains, 'Tis but what virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want, which is, to pass for good. Oh blind... | |
 | 1867 - 820 sider
...sententious, and sometimes epygramatic without knowing it ; as in the following, from the Essay on Man: " Count all the advantage prosperous vice attains, "Tis but what virtue flies from and disdains." Other examples from the same poem are too familiar to be repeated ; but he often writes downright epigrams,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 sider
...right? Of vice or virtue, whether bless'd or cursed, Which meets contempt, or which compassion first ? Count all the advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains : 90 And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want, which is, to pass for good. O,... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 sider
...vicious every man must be, Few in th' extreme, but all in the degree. Pope, EM 1. 231. Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains : And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want — which is, to pass for good. Pope,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 sider
...virtue, whether bless'd or cursed, 87 Which meets contempt, or which compassion first ? Count all th' advantage prosperous vice attains, Tis but what virtue flies from and disdains : And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want, which is, to pass for good. Oh,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 sider
...instils Of true nobility ; forms their ductile minds To human virtues. JOHN PHILIPS. Count all th' advantage prosperous vice attains. 'Tis but what virtue flies from and disdains; And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want — which is, to pass for good. Oh,... | |
 | George Bruce - 1876 - 642 sider
...bliss ! Go ! selfish Vice, and worship narrow Self, Leave Hodge his Happiness ! he spurns your pelf ! " Count all the advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from, and disdains, Sweet health doth live with Temperance, alone, And Peace, 0 Virtue ! Peace is all thy own ! " THE STRAYED... | |
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And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want, which is, to pass for good. 
