The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney |
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Page 73
... virtue , whether blest or curst , Which meets contempt , or which compassion first ? Count all the advantage prosperous vice attains , ' Tis but what virtue flies from and disdains : And grant the bad what happiness they would , One ...
... virtue , whether blest or curst , Which meets contempt , or which compassion first ? Count all the advantage prosperous vice attains , ' Tis but what virtue flies from and disdains : And grant the bad what happiness they would , One ...
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... virtue starves , while vice is fed . " What then ? is the reward of virtue bread ? That , vice may merit , ' tis the price of toil ; The knave deserves it , when he tills the soil , The knave deserves it , when he tempts the main ...
... virtue starves , while vice is fed . " What then ? is the reward of virtue bread ? That , vice may merit , ' tis the price of toil ; The knave deserves it , when he tills the soil , The knave deserves it , when he tempts the main ...
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... virtue ; of virtue not angelical , nor above probability , for what we cannot credit we shall never imitate , but the high- est and purest that humanity can reach , which , ex- ercised in such trials as the various revolutions of things ...
... virtue ; of virtue not angelical , nor above probability , for what we cannot credit we shall never imitate , but the high- est and purest that humanity can reach , which , ex- ercised in such trials as the various revolutions of things ...
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Alexander Pope | 15 |
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