Wise wretch! with pleasures too refin'd to please; With too much spirit to be e'er at ease; With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but... The Troubles of a Good Husband - Página 321818 - 142 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 páginas
...More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything. POPE— Moral Essays. Ep. I. Pt. II. я \Vith as the law is set over the magistrate, even so are the magistrates set over the peop POPE — Moral Essays. Ep. II. L. 97. 10 From loveless youth to unrespected age, \o passion gratified,... | |
| David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 páginas
...Spouse too kind. Wise Wretch ! with Pleasures too refin'd to please, With too much Spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much Quickness ever to be taught, With too much Thinking to have common Thought : You purchase Pain with all that Joy can give, And die of nothing but a Rage to live. Turn then from... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 páginas
...Spouse too kind. Wise Wretch ! with Pleasures too refin'd to please, 95 With too much Spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much Quickness ever to be taught, With too much Thinking to have common Thought : Who purchase Pain with all that Joy can give, And die of nothing but a Rage to live. 100 Turn then... | |
| John E. Sitter - 1971 - 146 páginas
...Spouse too kind. Wise Wretch! with Pleasures too refin'd to please, With too much Spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much Quickness ever to be taught, With too much Thinking to have common Thought: Who purchase Pain with all that Joy can give, And die of nothing but a Rage to live.22 Pope's character... | |
| 1903 - 248 páginas
...spouse too kind ? Wise wretch I with pleasures too refined to please ; With too much spirit to be e'er at ease ; With too much quickness ever to be taught ', With too much thinking to have common thought : You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live. There is no... | |
| Yasmine Gooneratne - 1976 - 164 páginas
...-destructive turbulence Wise Wretch! with Pleasures too refin'd to please, 95 With too much Spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much Quickness ever to be taught, With too much Thinking to have common Thought: Who purchase Pain with all that Joy can give, And die of nothing but a Rage to live. Cloe's prudence... | |
| Valerie Rumbold - 1989 - 342 páginas
...perversity of Atossa: Wise Wretch! with Pleasures too refin'd to please, With too much Spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much Quickness ever to be taught, With too much Thinking to have common Thought: 72 Line 21 in TE, but here quoted in the first published text of 1735. I have followed TE in correcting... | |
| James Boswell - 1994 - 450 páginas
...and absence of mind, with a disposition to downright trifling. Pope's lines may be applied to him: With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought. He is very selfish and deceitful, yet he has much good nature and affection. He now declared to me... | |
| Peter Stoneley - 1992 - 230 páginas
...lines "Wise wretch! with pleasures too refin'd to please, / With too much spirit to be e'er at case, / With too much quickness ever to be taught; / With too much thinking to have common thought: / You purchase pain with all that joy can give, / And did of nothing but a rage to live" (Poetical... | |
| Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 páginas
...Spouse too kind, Wise wretch! with pleasures too refin'd to please; With too much spirit to be e'er at ease; With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much Thinking to have common Thought: Who purchase pain with all that joy can give. And die of nothing but a rage to live. 100 Tum then from... | |
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