 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 86 pages
...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 fall to ill : Where... | |
 | Noah Webster - English language - 1822 - 246 pages
...introducing an important idea. They mark a moderate pause, and the clause included is read with a depressed tone of voice; as "Know then this truth (enough for man to know) Virtue alone is happiness below." Pope. "If any one pretends 1o.be so sceptical, as to deny his own existence (for really to doubt of... | |
 | William Pinnock - Readers (Elementary) - 1822 - 252 pages
...sense, yet serves farther to explain or illustrate it, which does not at all affect the construction ; as, " " Know then this truth, (enough for man to know), Virtue alone is happiness below." Port. 11. BRACKETS or CROTCHETS [ ] are applied nearly to the same purpose as a parenthesis. 12. A... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...to 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:' The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill; Where only... | |
 | John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...supremely fair ! Pope, in his Essay on Man, thus asserts the connection between Virtue and Happiness : — Know then 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 only... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 pages
...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 fall to ill ; NOTES.... | |
 | Allen Fisk - English language - 1822 - 192 pages
...speak to them, Ihat know tbe Ian,) bow that Ibe law batb dominion over a man as long as he liveib i" ' Know then this truth, (enough for man to know,) ' Virtue alone is happiness below.' ' And was the ransom paid ? It was ; and paid ' (What can exalt his bounty more ?) for th e.' If the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 372 pages
...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 fall to ill ; NOTES.... | |
 | W. JILLARD HORT - 1822 - 156 pages
...unto life everlasting. O, how I love thy law, O God ! It is my meditation day and night. Know thou this truth, enough for man to know, Virtue alone is happiness below. A PROMISCUOUS EXERCISE UPON THE WHOLE OF THE ENGLISH GRAMMAR. Religion may be considered under two... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Ardesher Bahramjee - Grammar, Comparative and general - 1822 - 656 pages
...«MI in лиги (?) luttrrogati've, " i w'i» " How excellent is a grateful heart 1" Exclamation, " Know then this truth, (enough for man to know,) Virtue alone is happiues» below." *4 frier» ofl g) • fctësi-fl ' PareatbeiiSf "Ч е»ес The following character«... | |
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