| Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 σελίδες
...chain'd his country, say, Or he whose virtue sigh'd to lose a day ? " But sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed." What then ? is the reward of virtue...vice may merit ; 'tis the price of toil ; The knave deserves it when he tills the soil, The knave deserves it when he tempts the main, Where folly fights... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1860 - 60 σελίδες
...chain'd his country? say, Or he whose virtue sigh'd to lose a day? " But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed." What then? Is the reward of Virtue...Vice may merit ; 'tis the price of toil ; The knave deserves it, when he tills the soil; The knave deserves it, when he tempts the main, Where folly fights... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 σελίδες
...chain'd his country? say, Or he whose virtue sigh'd to lose a day? " But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed." What then ? Is the reward of virtue bread 'I That, vice may merit, 'tis the price of toil ; The knave deserves it, when he tills the soil, The... | |
| Goold Brown - 1860 - 354 σελίδες
...all your business lies Would you be great be virtuous and be wise Denham But sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed What then is the reward of virtue bread Pope A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be prais'd But wisdom... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 σελίδες
...chain'd his cointry Ba.Vt Or he whose virtue sigh'd to lose a (Jay ? VI. ' But sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed. What then? Is the reward of virtue bread ? J5| That, vice may merit, 'tis the prien of toil ; The knave deserves it, when he tills the soil... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1878 - 138 σελίδες
...who chain'd his country, say, Or he whose virtue sigh'd to lose a day? 'But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed.' What then? is the reward of virtue bread? 150 That vice may merit, 'tis the price of toil; The knave deserves it, when he tills the soil, The... | |
| New Shakspere Society - 342 σελίδες
...such like cheap cynics. Pope sums up this " cheap cynicism " thus : — " But sometimes Virtue starves while Vice is fed ; What then ? is the reward of Virtue bread f What nothing earthly gives nor can destroy — The soul's ctdm sunshine and the heartfelt joy Is... | |
| sir John Bowring - 1879 - 626 σελίδες
...conviction that virtue is the gainer and vice the loser here and now. " But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed ! What then ? Is the reward of virtue bread ?" The reader will find in him none of the moroseness and misanthropy of Schopenhauer; indeed, a serene... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1879 - 130 σελίδες
...his country ? say, — Or he whose virtue sighed to lose a day ? VI. ' But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed.' What then ? Is the reward of virtue bread ? 150 That vice may merit, 'tis the price of toil ; The knave deserves it when he tills the soil, 128.... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 642 σελίδες
...chain'd his country, say, Or he whose virtue sigh'd to lose a day? ' But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed,' What then? Is the reward of virtue...vice may merit, 'tis the price of toil ; The knave deserves it, when he tills the soil, The knave deserves it when he tempts the main, Where folly fights... | |
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