 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
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1881 - 150 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. 260 Whate'er the passion — knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbour with himself.... | |
 | English essays - 1881 - 578 pages
...; Yet from the same we learn, in its decline, Those joys, those loves, those interests to resign ; l. Grant that the powerful still the weak control; Be Man the wit and tyrant of th Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbour with himself, The... | |
 | 1884 - 610 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. (a) Parse fully each word which is printed in italics in the above passage. (J) Expand the sentence... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Literature - 1886 - 328 pages
...been more difficult." Arthur Murphy the dramatist quoted in his last breath Pope's lines, — " Taught by reason, half by mere decay, To welcome death and calmly pass away." When asked if he heard the prayers which were offered in his presence, the Duke of Marlborough replied,... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - Authors, English - 1887 - 572 pages
...; Yet from the same we learn, in its decline, Those joys, those loves, those interests to resign ; ed him into so long a state of misery and Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pel f, Not one will change his neighbour with himself, The... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1889 - 544 pages
...removal or departure, from my present state of existence, so much the more welcome and desirable, " Taught half by reason, half by mere decay, To welcome death, and calmly pass away." — POPE. — for which I am now waiting ; and tho', according to the expressions before mentioned,... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1889 - 542 pages
...removal or departure, from my present state of existence, so much the more welcome and desirable, " Taught half by reason, half by mere decay, To welcome death, and calmly pass away." — POPE. — for which I am now waiting ; and tho', according to the expressions before mentioned,... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Anthologies - 1890 - 448 pages
...; 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. Whate'er the Passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself. The... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1892 - 212 pages
...decline, ' ..,•* ,•'iv' "\ ^ vy i Those joys, those loves, those int'rests to resign;? ^s•^Taught half by reason, half by mere decay, « * To welcome death, and calmly pass away. 260 Whate'er the passion — knowledge, fame, or 'pelf, *< iu«a*v"" Npt.pne will_change Jiis neighbour... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1893 - 566 pages
...; 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. 260 (Whate'er the Passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbour with himself.... | |
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