| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 190 pagina’s
...easier in the mind's disease ; There all men may be cur'd whene'er they please. Would ye be bless'd ? despise low joys, low gains ; • Disdain whatever...disdains ; Be virtuous, and be happy for your pains. But art thou one whom new opinions sway, One who believes as Tindal leads the way, \Vho virtue and... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pagina’s
...with a calm and contemptuous dignity, " Madam, if you live, you •will grow old." t Ver. 29. Would ye be blest ? despise low joys, low gains ;' Disdain...disdains ; Be virtuous, and be happy for your pains.* This again is superior to the original ; where quis nun, is feeble and flat : and the mention of a... | |
| John Bell - 1807 - 562 pagina’s
...all men may be cur'd whene'er they please. Would ye be bless'd? despise low joys, lov gains ; 60 ( Disdain whatever Cornbury disdains ; Be virtuous ; and be happy for your pains. But art thou one whom new opinions sway, One who believes as Tindal leads the way, Who virtue, and... | |
| Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 pagina’s
...easier in the mind's disease ; There all men may be cur'd whene'er they please. Would ye be bless'd ? despise low joys, low gains ; Disdain whatever Cornbury...disdains ; Be virtuous, and be happy for your pains. But art thou one whom new opinions sway, One who believes as Tindal leads the way, Who virtue and a... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 pagina’s
...The case is easier in the mind's disease; There all men may be cur'd whene'er they please. Would ye be blest ? despise low joys, low gains ; "! Disdain whatever Cornbury disdains; Be virtnous, and be happy for your pains. Bui art l lion one, whom new opinions sway ? One who believes... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pagina’s
...easier in the mind's disease ;; There all men may beeur'd, whene'er tbej 268 B»OK IT. 2.19 Would yc ge for b ami l>e huppy for your ]>;iins. j But art thou one whom new opinion a sway One who believes as Tindal... | |
| H. R. Duff - 1815 - 574 pagina’s
...would transmit it to Frank • This wag the Nobleman alluded to by Mr. Pope in the following lines : Would you be blest, despise low joys, low gains, ")...disdains; > Be virtuous, and be happy for your pains. ' Paton Paton at Dumfries, for her use. I told you, you remember, that I had disbursed near that sum... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1818 - 338 pagina’s
...deck thy shrine?" Again, he has bequeathed this praise to Lord Cornbury — " Despise low thoughts, low gains: Disdain whatever Cornbury disdains; Be virtuous and be happy for your pains." One would think (though there is no knowing) that a descendant of this nobleman, if there be such a... | |
| Baroness Mary Lepell Hervey Hervey - 1821 - 356 pagina’s
...Hyde ; and Pope and Thomson have immortalized his honour and his taste. — - — >Jb.e former says, " Would you be blest ? despise low joys, low gains ;...disdains ; Be virtuous, and be happy for your pains !" And Thomson celebrates " Ham's embow'ring walks, Where polished Cornbury woos the willing muse."... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 290 pagina’s
...easier in the mind's disease ; There all men may be cured whene'er they please, Would ye be bless'd? despise low joys, low gains; Disdain whatever Cornbury...disdains; Be virtuous, and be happy for your pains. But art thou one whom new opinions sway, One who believes as Tindal leads the way, Who virtue and a... | |
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