 The learn'd is happy nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty given, The poor contents him with the care of Heaven.  Moral essays - Page 67by Alexander Pope - 1751Full view - About this book
 | Lyman Cobb - Readers - 1834 - 238 pages
...the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one would change his neighbour with himself. The learned is happy, nature to explore, The fool is happy that...he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty given, The poor contents him with the care of heaven. See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...away. 260 Whate'er the passion, knowlege, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself. The learn'd is happy nature to explore, The fool is...he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty given, 265 The poor contents him with the care of Heaven. See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...260 Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Vot one will change his neighhour with himself. Crown'd with rough thickets, and a nodding wood....vessel at the point of land, And close to guard it, g given; The poor contents him with the care of Heaven. See the hlind heggar dance, the cripple sing,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 332 pages
...260 Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbour with himself. The learn'd is happy nature to explore, The fool is happy that lie knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty given ; The poor contents him with thu care of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...260 Whate'er the Passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself. The learn'd is happy nature to explore, The fool is...of Heav'n. See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing. The sot a hero, lunatic a king; The starving chemist in his golden views Supremely blest, the... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - Literary Criticism - 1976 - 164 pages
...Whate'er the Passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf 261 Not one will change his neighbour with himself, The learn'd is happy nature to explore. The fool is...knows no more; The rich is happy in the plenty giv'n, The poor contents him with the care of Heav'n. See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing. The sot... | |
 | Benjamin Rush - Psychology - 1981 - 770 pages
...is not the necessary consequence of ignorance and of the inactivity of the understanding. The "Wise is happy, nature to explore; , "The fool is happy that he knows no more." In this respect, you see the understanding differs from the senses and the passions; all the pleasures... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 90 pages
...desired, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbour with himself ; The learn'd are happy nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more. The rich are happy in the plenty given ; The poor contents him with the care of heaven. Thus does some comfort... | |
 | Robert L. Cooper - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1989 - 232 pages
.... . Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself. The learn'd is happy Nature to explore, The fool is...he knows no more; The rich is happy in the plenty given, The poor contents him with the care of Heaven. See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing... | |
 | Theodore M. Bernstein - Business & Economics - 1995 - 516 pages
...elements, antithesis is among the commonest and most effective of rhetorical devices. An example from Pope: "The learn'd is happy nature to explore, the fool is happy that he knows no more." CHIASMUS A heightener of dramatic or oratorical effect, chiasmus is the inversion in the second of... | |
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