 | John T. Watson - Quotations - 1869 - 524 pages
...same ambition can destroy or save, And make a patriot, as it makes a knave. POPE'S Esiay on Man Qt. sons of earth ! attempt ye still to rise By mountains...mountains to the skies ? Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. POPE'S Essay on Alan. Thus the fond moth... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1871 - 544 pages
...this worid. Not present good or ill, the joy or curse, But future views of better, or of worse.1 0 sons of earth ! attempt ye still to rise, By mountains piled on mountains, to the skies ?' Heav'n still ' with laughter the vain toil surveys,4 »» And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...in fear : 70 Not present good or ill, the joy or curse, But future views of better, or of worse. O sons of earth ! attempt ye still to rise, By mountains...mountains, to the skies \ Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. III. Know, all the good that individuals... | |
 | English poetry - 1873 - 390 pages
...these in fear, — Not present good or ill, the joy or curse, But future views of better or of worse. 0 sons of earth ! attempt ye still to rise, By mountains...mountains, to the skies ? Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. Know all the good that individuals find,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1875 - 392 pages
...these in fear ; Xot present good or ill, the joy or curse, But future views of better or of worse. 0 sons of earth, attempt ye still to rise, By mountains...mountains, to the skies ? Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. Know, all the good that individuals find,... | |
 | 1871 - 586 pages
...horizon by which she is surrounded, than address them in the words of the poet : O sons of earth I attempt ye still to rise By mountains piled on mountains to the skies ; Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys. And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. Those who suppose that Lacordair* was... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1875 - 560 pages
...these in fear ; Jfot present good or ill, the joy or curse, But future views of better or of worse. O sons of earth, attempt ye still to rise, By mountains piled on mountains, to the skies I Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. Know,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1876 - 562 pages
...these in fear ; Not present good or ill, the joy or curse, But future views of better or of worse. 0 sons of earth, attempt ye still to rise. By mountains...mountains, to the skies? Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. Know, all the good that individuals lind,... | |
 | Francis Jacox - Bible - 1877 - 400 pages
...down from thence, saith the Lord." An apostrophe from the Essay on Man is here not inapplicable : " Oh, sons of earth ! attempt ye still to rise, By mountains...mountains, to the skies ? Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. " Pope has a more direct allusion to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1878 - 656 pages
...these in fear : 70 Nor present good or ill, the joy or curse, But future views of better, or of worse. By mountains piled on mountains, to the skies? Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. Know, all the good that individuals find,... | |
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Oh, sons of earth ! attempt ye still to rise, By mountains piled on mountains, to the skies ? Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. 
