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 - Página 234por John Mason Good - 1826Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Thomas Brown, David Welsh - 1846 - 548 páginas
...duty, in what manner is he to seek it ? that is to say, in what objects is he to hope to find it ? 0 Happiness ! our being's end and aim ! Good, pleasure, ease, content, whate'er thy name .' That something still which prompts th' eternal sigb, For which we bear to live, or dare to die !... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 páginas
...ORDER of PROVIDENCE here, and a Resignation to it here and hereafter, Ver. 326, &c. EPISTLE IV. OH HAPPINESS ! our being's end and aim ! Good, Pleasure, Ease, Content ! whate'er thy name ; COMMENTARY. THE two foregoing Epistles having considered Man with regard to the MEANS, (that is,... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 páginas
...consists in a conformity to the OKDKU of PROVIDENCE here, and a resignation to it here and hereafter. I. 0 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... | |
| Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 páginas
...: And who but wishes to invert the laws Of ORDER, sins against th' Eternal Cause. XIX ON HAPPINESS. 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, and dare to die ;... | |
| George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 páginas
...God and nature linked the general frame, 315 And bade self-love and social be the same. EPISTLE Iv. 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 ;... | |
| 1852 - 588 páginas
...be happy. But what is happiness ? With whom does it dwell ? Where is it to be found on earth ? " 0 happiness ! our being's end and aim ! Good, Pleasure, Ease, Content ! whate'er thy name : That somcthing still which prompts th' cternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die ;... | |
| 1852 - 874 páginas
...consists in a conformity to the order of Providence here, and a resignation to it here and hereafter. OH sfix'd with pins ; Or plunged in lakes of bitter washes lie, : That something still which prompts th' eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die, Which... | |
| Mary Ann Kelty - 1853 - 324 páginas
...Pope has done that about as well as any one," replied Miss Morton, and she repeated the lines : — " 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 —... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1853 - 336 páginas
...conformity to the order of Providence here, and a resignation to it here and hereafter, ver. 326, &c. /"\H 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, In... | |
| Mary Ann Kelty - 1853 - 320 páginas
...has done that about as well as any one," replied Miss Merton, and she repeated the lines : — " 0 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 —... | |
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