 | 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... | |
 | 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 ;... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...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.* He begins his address to Happiness after the manner of the ancient hymns, f by enumerating the titles... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 464 pages
...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 ;... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - Anglican Communion - 1811 - 454 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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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... 
