 OH 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, Which still so near us, yet beyond us lies, O'er-look'd, seen...  Manners: A Novel ... In Two Volumes - Page 2261818Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...327, ,tc. UH Happiness! our being's end and aim! Goods Pleasure, Ease, Content ! whate'er thy name; That something still which prompts th* eternal sigh,...to die; Which still so near us, yet beyond us lies, 5 O'erlook'd, seen double, by the fool and wise. Plant of celestial seed ! if dropp'd below, Bay, in... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pages
...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 ;...by the fool, and wise. Plant of celestial seed! if dropt below, Say, in what mortal soil thou deign'st to grow? Fair op'ning to some court's propitious... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...327, &c. OH, Happiness ! our being's end and aim ! Good, Pleasure, Ease, Content ! whate'er thy name ; That something still which prompts th' eternal sigh,...die ; Which still so near us, yet beyond us lies, 5 O'erlook'd, seen double by the fool and wise ; Plant of celestial seed ! if dropp'd below, Say in... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...aim I Good , Pleasure , Ease ,jContent ! whate'er thy name; That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live , or dare to die ; Which still *o near us , yet beyond us lies ; O'erlook'd , seen double , by the fool, and wise. Plant of celestial... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...Content! whate'er thy name; That something still which prompts the eternal jigh, For which we hear to live, or dare to die ; Which still so near us, yet heyond us lies, O'erlook'd, seen douhle, hy the fool and wise; Plant of celestial seed ! if dropt helow,... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...ESSAY ON MAH. OR Happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, Pleasure, Ease, Content! whate'er thy name; That something still which prompts th' eternal sigh,...to die; Which still so near us, yet beyond us lies, O'erlooked, seen double by the fool and wise; Plant of celesii il seed ! if dropMl below, Say, in what... | |
 | Elizabeth Strutt - 1807 - 258 pages
...whate'er thy name, That something still that prompts th'eternal sigh, For which we bear to live and dare to die, Which still so near us, yet beyond us...by the fool and wise; Plant of celestial seed, if dropt below, Say in what mortal soil thou deign'st to grow. FOR some time, affairs went on in an uniform... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...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 still so near us, yet beyond us lies, O'erloolt'd, seen double, by the fool and wise. Plant of celestial seed ! if dropp'd below, Say in... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...and aim ! Good, pleasure, ease, content ! whate'er thy name: That some thing still which prompts the' eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to...by the fool and wise. Plant of celestial seed ! if dropt below, Say in what mortal soil thon deign'st to grow i Fair opening to some court's propitious... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...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...by the fool and wise. Plant of celestial seed ! if dropt below, Say in what mortal soil thon deign'st to grow i Fair opening to some court's propitious... | |
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