 Ask of the Learn'd the way? The Learn'd are blind; This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind; "° Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it Pleasure, and Contentment these...  An essay on man. Cornish ed - Seite 74von Alexander Pope - 1798Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 Seiten
...alwavs free, And, fled from monarchs, St John, dwells wi Ask of the learned the way ! The learned a; B. Li - ! p; Some, swelled to gods, confess e'en virtue va Or indolent, to each extreme they fall, To trust in... | |
 | Theodore Low De Vinne - 1904 - 514 Seiten
...hath killed her beasts ; she hath mingled her wine ; she hath furnished her table. Some place their bliss in action, some in ease ; Those call it pleasure, and contentment these. In the first example the semicolon is needed because each member of the sentence is nearly complete... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1903 - 704 Seiten
...Ask of the Learn'd the way ? the Learn'd are blind, This hids to serve, and that to shun mankind : 20 Some place the bliss in Action, some in Ease, Those...Or indolent, to each extreme they fall, To trust in everything, or doubt of all. Who thus define it, say they more or less Than this, that happiness is... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1903 - 362 Seiten
...free, And, fled from monarchs, St. John! dwells with thee. Ask of the learned the way ! The learned are blind ; This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind;...ease; Those call it pleasure, and contentment these; Cbe iPoetrg of pope Some, sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain; Some swelled to gods, confess... | |
 | Luella Clay Carson - 1903 - 140 Seiten
...statement, with some dependence on statements in the other member or members ; as, "Some place their bliss in action, some in ease ; those call it pleasure, and contentment, these." 5. In order to give separateness to important details, the semicolon is sometimes used to set off portions... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1904 - 574 Seiten
...Ask of the Learn'd the way? The Learn'd are blind; This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind; to Some place the bliss in action*, some in ease, Those...Virtue vain; Or indolent, to each extreme they fall, 35 To trust in ev'ry thing, or doubt of all. Who thus define it, say they more or less Than «this,... | |
 | William Franklin Watson - 1904 - 244 Seiten
...DEMONSTRATIVE AND INDEFINITE PRONOUNS. 159. (a) This is my choice of the books; I do not like that. (b) Some place the bliss in action, some in ease; Those call it pleasure, and contentment these. (e) One that has newly learned to speak and go Loves childish plays. (d) None pities him that "s in... | |
 | John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - 1904 - 930 Seiten
...entered at an eye ; True happiness resides in things unseen. Night Thoughts, Night VIII. DR. E. YOUNG. Some place the bliss in action, some in ease. Those call it pleasure, and contentment these. Essay on Man, Epistle IV. A. POPE. The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's... | |
 | William Franklin Webster, Alice Woodworth Cooley - 1904 - 246 Seiten
...DEMONSTRATIVE AND INDEFINITE PRONOUNS. 159. (a) This is my choice of the books; I do not like that. (b) Some place the bliss in action, some in ease; Those call it pleasure, and contentment these. (c) One that has newly learned to speak and go Loves childish plays. (d) None pities him that 's in... | |
 | William Henry Maxwell - 1907 - 328 Seiten
...the other; this referring to the latter of two things mentioned, that to the former. Some place their bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these. — Pope. . . . reason raise o'er instinct as you can In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis man. —... | |
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