 | William Warburton - 1742 - 220 pages
...Pleafures, all the Joys of Senfe, Lie in three Words, Health, Peace, and Competence. But Health confifts with Temperance alone, And Peace, O Virtue! Peace is all thy own. The firft Line, Reafon's whole Pleafures, all the Joys of Senfe, is the moft beautiful Paraphrafis... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...the good that individuals find, Or God and Nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, Health, Peace,...Competence. But health consists with temperance alone ; 81 And peace, Oh, Virtue ! peace is all thy own. The good or bad the gifts of Fortune gain ; But... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pages
...the good that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace,...alone ; And peace, O Virtue ! peace is all thy own. The good or bad the gifts of fortune gain ; But these less taste them as they worse obtain. Say, in... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1799 - 408 pages
...pleafure, all the joys of fenfe, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence : But health'confifts with temperance alone; And peace, O Virtue ! peace is all thy own. Plard emotion. Who can forbear to fmile with nature ? Can The ftorrny pafsions in the bofom roll, While... | |
 | 1801 - 446 pages
...will be that nothing can impart to competence the least advantage— " Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, " Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence. An hundred dishes after the novelty has passed, cannot gratify the man who wishes to pamper his appetite,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...the good that individuals find, Or God and Nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, Health, Peace,...health consists with temperance alone ; And peace, oh, Virtue ! peace is all thy own. The good or bad the gifts of Fortune gain ; But these less taste... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...the good that individual" find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, Health, Peace, and Competence, SWEETNESS. AN ODE. BY Mil. ROBERTSON. Or damask cheeks and radiant eyes, Let other poets tell ; Within... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...good that individual* find , Or God and Nature meant to mer« mankind , Reason's whole pleasure , all the joys of Sense , Lie in three words , Health , Peace , and Competence. POPS. CHAP. XVI. On Virtue. J\.KOW thou this truth (enough for man to know} a Virtue alone is happiness... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...the good that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's wide pleasure, all the joys of sense. Lie in three words, Health, Peace, and Competence. SWEETNESS. AN ODE. BY MR. RO13ERTSON. O' damask cheeks and radiant eyes, Let other poets tell; Within... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...the good that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,— health,...alone ; And peace, O virtue ! peace is all thy own. The good or bad the gifts of fortune gain ; But these less taste them, as they worse obtain. Say, in... | |
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Know all the good that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind. Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, — health, peace, and competence. 
