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" 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... "
Nature of the mind - Page 213
by John Mason Good - 1834
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An essay on man. Cornish ed

Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pages
...consists in a conformity tu the order of Providence here, and a resignation to it here and hereafter. 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...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...consists in a conformity to the order of Providence here, and a resignation to it hereafter, 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, For which we bear to live, or dare to die ;...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 1806 - 464 pages
...vinxeris, consentiens et dissentiens, consonans et dissonans, unum etiam ex omnibus, omniaque ex uno." 46. O Happiness ! our being's end and aim ! Good, Pleasure, Ease, Content, whate'er thy name.'1' He begins his address to Happiness after the manner of the ancient hymns,']' by enumerating...
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Poems on various subjects, selected by E. Tomkins

E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...all the cares of waking clay, And inconsistent dreams of day. HAPPINESS. IBOM POPE'S 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, For which we bear to live, or dare to die; Which...
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Drelincourt and Rodalvi; or, Memoirs of two noble families, Volume 1

Elizabeth Strutt - 1807 - 258 pages
...fashionable moderns, and the poets, can make as entertaining a tour as the best of them." CHAP. VIII. Oh, Happiness ! our being's end and aim, Good, Pleasure, Ease, Content, whate'er thy name, That something still that prompts th'eternal sigh, For which we bear to live and dare to die, Which...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Four Volumes. Collated with the ...

Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...consists in a conformity to the order of Providence here, and a reiignation to it here and hereafter. O HAPPINESS ! our being's end 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 die ;...
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Poetical Works

Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...consists ill a conformity to the order of Providence here, and a relignation to it here and hereafter. 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 ; Which...
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The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton, D.D., Lord ..., Volume 11

William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - Theology - 1811 - 446 pages
...first define what men mean by happiness, and this he does in the ornament of a poetic invocation : O happiness ! our being's end and aim, Good, pleasure, ease, content ! whate'er thy NAME, After the DEFINITION, that which follows next, in order of method, is the PROPOSITION, which here is,...
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The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton ...

William Warburton - 1811 - 444 pages
...first define what men mean by happiness, and this he does in the ornament of a poetic invocation : O happiness ! our being's end and aim, Good, pleasure, ease, content ! whate'er thy NAME. After the DEFINITION, that which follows next, in order of method, is the, PROPOSITION, which here...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1812 - 378 pages
...suffice To make men moral, good, and wise." &A.V.. SECTION III. The road to happiness open to all men. OH happiness! our being's end and aim ; Good, pleasure, ease, content ! whate'er thy name ;: That something still which prompts th' eternal sigh r For which we bear to live, or dare to die...
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