 Each home-felt joy that life inherits here; Yet from the same we learn, in its decline, Those joys, those loves, those interests, to resign; Taught, half by reason, half by mere decay, To welcome death, and calmly pass away.  The General Biographical Dictionary - Page 527edited by - 1815Full view - About this book
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 840 pages
...Yet from the same we learn, in its decline, i Those joys, those loves, those interests, to resign ; j eeds have wrought Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf. Not one will change his neighbor with himself. The... | |
 | 1877 - 844 pages
...author's hands cold and damp, and his mouth open. He frequently repeated Pope's beautiful lines : — " Taught half by reason, half by mere decay. To welcome death and calmly pass away." Before he expired, he lost the power of speech, and death called him its own on the 18th of June, 1S05.... | |
 | Proverbs, Haitian - 1877 - 136 pages
...here: Yet from the same we learn, in its decline, Those joys, those loves, those interests to resign : Taught half by reason, half by mere decay, To welcome death and calmly pass away." Turks, and commonly supposed to be of Turkish origin, though it is not, which makes a corresponding... | |
 | 1877 - 828 pages
...author's hands cold and damp, and his mouth open. He frequently repeated Pope's beautiful lines : — " Taught half by reason, -half by mere decay, To welcome death and calmly pass away." Before he expired, he lost the power of speech, and death called him its own on the 18th of June, 1805.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1878 - 138 pages
...here; Yet from the same we learn, in its decline, Those joys, those loves, those int'rests to resign; Taught half by reason, half by mere decay, To welcome death, and calmly pass away. z6o Whate'er the passion — knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbour with himself.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...What future bliss, he gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now. POPE. never, Taught half by reason, half by mere decay, To welcome death, and calmly pass away. POPE. These eyes behold The deathful scene ; princes on princes roIPd. POPE. The best, the dearest... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1879 - 130 pages
...<fc.] Yet from the same we learn, in its decline, Those joys, those loves, those interests to resign : Taught half by reason, half by mere decay, To welcome death, and calmly pass away. 260 Whate'er the passion, — knowledge, fame, or pelf, — Not one will change his neighbour with... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1879 - 136 pages
...here; Yet from the same we learn, in its decline, Those joys, those loves, those int'rests to resign; Taught half by reason, half by mere decay, To welcome^ death, and calmly paas._awajc. 260 Whate'er the passion — knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbour... | |
 | French Ensor Chadwick - Merchant marine - 1880 - 222 pages
...here; Yet from the same we learn, in its decline, Those joys, those loves, those interests to resign ; Taught half by reason, half by mere decay, To welcome death, and calmly pass away. 3. Parse the following, and explain the construction : To each unthinking being, heaven a friend Gives... | |
 | Christian literature - 1881 - 602 pages
...here; Yet from the same, we learn in its decline, Those joys, those loves, those interests to resign; Taught half by reason, half by mere decay, To welcome death and calmly pass away. Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame or pelt, Not one would change his neighbor with himself; The... | |
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