 | George Ramsay - 1843 - 620 sider
...poet who exclaims, Oh happiness ! our being's end and aim, Good, pleasure, ease, content, whate'er thy name ! That something still which prompts th'...sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.* In a matter of this sort, which, if not self-evident, admits of no proof, all we can do is to state... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1844 - 94 sider
...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 still so near us, yet beyond us lies, 5 O'erlook'd, seen double, by the fool and wise. Plant of celestial seed ! if dropt below, Say, in... | |
 | William Lamartine Snyder - 1901 - 776 sider
...mysterious word ! How often misapplied and misunderstood! Like the happiness described by the poet: That still so near us, yet beyond us lies, O'erlook'd,...by the fool and wise. Plant of celestial seed, if dropp'd below. Say in what mortal soil thou deign'st to glow. Alas, gentlemen of the jury, it is not... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1901 - 120 sider
...327, etc. EPISTLE IV. O 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 ; e Which still so near us, yet beyond us lies, O'erlook'd, seen double by the fool and wise : Plant... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 sider
...EpUtle L) Happiness. O Happiness ! our being's end and aim, Good, Pleasure, Ease, Content, whate'er Up\q\ W V ] W V S5R L 1 1 PS]K] \ \iY ] W W G O'erlooked, seen double by the fool and wise ! Plant of celestial seed ! if dropped below, Say in what... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 sider
...and aim, Good, Pleasure, Ease, Content, whate'er thy That something still which prompts th* etern; O'erlooked, seen double by the fool and wise Plant of celestial seed ! if dropped below, Say in what... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 sider
...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. Epistle ir. Line i. 1 Why may not a goose say thus ? . . . there is nothing that yon heavenly roof... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1903 - 362 sider
...from these extracts : "O Happiness ! our being's end and aim, Good, Pleasure, Ease, Content, whate'er thy name; That something still which prompts th' eternal...to die; Which still so near us, yet beyond us lies, O'erlooked, seen double by the fool and wise ! Plant of celestial seed ! if dropped below, Say, in... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1903 - 704 sider
...hereafter, verse 327, etc. O HAPPINESS! our being's end and aim! Good, Pleasure, Ease, Content ! whate'er thy name, That something still which prompts th' eternal...bear to live, or dare to die; Which still so near us, vet beyond us lies, O'erlook'd, seen double, by the fool and wise: Plant of celestial seed! if dropt... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1903 - 1188 sider
...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. Epistu it. Lint i. 1 Why may not a goose say thus ? . . . there is nothing that yon heavenly roof looks... | |
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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'erlook'd, seen double,... 
