 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 lehte
...and aim ! Good, pleasure, ease, content! wbate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the me shall come, when free as seas or wind Unbounded Thames2 shall flow for all mankind ; Whole dropp'd below, Sav, in what mortal soil thou deign'st to grow? Fair opening to some court's propitious... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1840 - 258 lehte
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 | Henrietta Georgiana Chatterton (M. lady.) - 1840 - 1020 lehte
...VOL. I CHAPTER I. O Happiness ! our being's end and aim— Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts th' eternal...to die; Which still so near us, yet beyond us lies, O'erlooVed, seen double by the fool and wise; Ptant of celestial seed! if dropped below, Say in what... | |
 | Jane Roberts - 1840 - 954 lehte
...Good night !" they separated for repose. CHAPTER IX. " Oh, happiness ! our being's end and aim!" " That something still, which prompts th' eternal sigh ; For which we bear to live, or dare to die." " Plant of celestial seed, if dropt below, Say, in what mortal soil thou deign'st to grow ?" CHRISTMAS,... | |
 | Chauncy Hare Townshend - 1840 - 604 lehte
...off. They who chase it most will find it least. To go far for it is like hunting for happiness — " Which still so near us, yet beyond us lies, O'erlook'd, seen double, by the fool and wise." The very terms heretofore in use, in speaking of mesmeric phenomena, have been strange and portentous.... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 lehte
...here and hereafter. Ou HAPPINESS! our being's end and aim! Ciood, Pleasure, Knse, Content! whate'er at warr'd on Jove ; Briareos or Typhon, whom the den...ancient Tarsus held ; or that sea-beast Leviathnn, whic siill so near us, yet beyond us lies, O'erlook'd, seen double, by the Ibol and wise : Plant of celestial... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 lehte
...here and hereafter. OH HAPPINESS ! our being's end and aim! Good, Pleasure, Ease, Content! whate'er Because dropp'd below. Say, in what mortal soil thou deign'st to grow ? Fair opening to some court's propitious... | |
 | George Ramsay - 1843 - 620 lehte
...poet who exclaims, Oh happiness ! our being's end and aim, Good, pleasure, ease, content, whate'er thy name ! That something still which prompts th'...sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.* In a matter of this sort, which, if not self-evident, admits of no proof, all we can do is to state... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1844 - 94 lehte
...and aim ! Good, pleasure, ease, content ! whate'er thy name : That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to...die : Which still so near us, yet beyond us lies, 5 O'erlook'd, seen double, by the fool and wise. Plant of celestial seed ! if dropt below, Say, in... | |
 | William Lamartine Snyder - 1901 - 776 lehte
...mysterious word ! How often misapplied and misunderstood! Like the happiness described by the poet: That still so near us, yet beyond us lies, O'erlook'd,...by the fool and wise. Plant of celestial seed, if dropp'd below. Say in what mortal soil thou deign'st to glow. Alas, gentlemen of the jury, it is not... | |
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HAPPINESS ! our being's end and aim ! Good, pleasure, ease, content ! whate'er thy name : That something still which prompts th' eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die ; Which still so near us, yet beyond us lies, O'erlook'd, seen double,... 
