 Wise wretch ! with pleasures too refined to please ; With too much spirit to be e'er at ease; With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but...  Queen Victoria - Page 76by Lytton Strachey - 1921 - 434 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...impotence of mind ? A spark too fickle, or a sponse too kind. Wise wretch ! with pleasures too relin'd to please ; With too much spirit to be e'er at ease ; With too much quickness ever to be taught ; With too much thinking to have common thought; You purchase pain with all that... | |
 | 1808 - 408 pages
...impotence of mind? A spark too fickle, or a spouse too kind. Wise wretch ! with pleasures too refin'd to please ; With too much spirit to be e'er at ease; With too mueb quickness ever to be taught ; With too much thiukinj to have commun thought ; You purchase pain... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...impotence of mind ? A spark too fickle, or a spouse too kind. Wise wretch ! with pleasures too refin'd to please ; With too much spirit to be e'er at ease; With too much quickness ever to be taught ; With too much thiuking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that... | |
 | William Beloe - English literature - 1817 - 456 pages
...of her ways ; have discovered a less dangerous and obstructed path, and auspiciously pursued it. 367 With pleasures too refined to please, With too much...spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought. CHAPTER LIV. DIFFERENT as light from... | |
 | William Beloe - 1817 - 462 pages
...less dangerous and obstructed path, and auspiciously pursued it. With pleasures too refined to pleasey With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought. CHAPTER LIV. DIFFERENT as light from... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...impotence of mind ? A spark too fickle, or a spouse too kind ? Wise wretch ! with pleasures too refin'd st, sole undertook The dismal expedition to find out And ruin Adam ; and the ever to be taught ; With too much thinking to have common thought : You purchase pain with all that... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...impotence of mind ? A spark too fickle, or a spouse too kind? Wise wretch ! with pleasures too refin'd to please ; With too much spirit to be e'er at ease ; With too much quickness ever to be taught ; With too much thinking to have common thought . You purchase pain with all that... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...Say, what can cause such impotence of mind ? A spark too fickle, or a spouse too kind. Wise wretch ! with pleasures too refined to please; With too much...spirit to be e'er at ease ; With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought; You purchase pain with all that joy... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...Say, what can cause such impotence of mind ? A spark too fickle, or a spouse too kind. Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please; With too much...spirit to be e'er at ease : With too much quickness ever to be taught ; With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 430 pages
...Say, what can cause such impotence < f mind ? A spark too fickle, or a spouse too kind. Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please; With too much...spirit to be e'er at ease : With too much quickness ever to be taught ; With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that... | |
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