 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 for kings, or dives for gain. The good man may be weak, be indolent ; Nor is his claim to plenty, but content.  The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Moral essays - Stran 126avtor: Alexander Pope - 1752Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 452 strani
...infers from hence That such are happier,— shocks all common sense. But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed : What then ? — is the reward of virtue bread ? 4. The metrical accent of poetry is subordinate to sense, and to established usage in pronunciation.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 strani
...cbain'd hi> country •ay, Or he whose virtue sigh'd to lose a day ? VI. 'But sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.' What then ? Is the reward of virtue bread 7 ISO That, vice may merit, 'tie the price of toil ; The knave deserve« it, when lie till« the soil... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 strani
...chain'd his country, say, Or he whose virtue sigh'd to lose a day? 20 "But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed." What then? Is the reward of virtue bread? That, vice may merit, 'tis the price of toil ; The knave deserves it, when he tills the soil. * Alluding... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1832 - 86 strani
...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...? 150 That, 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 strani
...perfection of the whole. But the passage exhibits a noble flow of poetry. ' But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed.' What then ? Is the reward of virtue...? 150 That 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 332 strani
...chain'd his country, eay, Or he whose virtue sigh'd to lose a day ? VI. ' But sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.' What then? Is the reward of virtue...? 150 That, 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... | |
 | George Rogers - 1837 - 204 strani
...are not sufficient]; rewarded, nor the latter sufficiently punished. •' For what if virtue starves, while vice is fed, What then ? Is the reward of virtue bread !" — Pope. Solomon saith, " He that spareth the rod hateth his son," [and' so he does virtually —... | |
 | 1842 - 1124 strani
...nodding to its fall, For Charters' head reserve the hanging wall ? " But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed." What then ? is the reward of virtue bread ? That, vice may merit, 'tis the price of toil ; The knave deserves it, when he tills the soil, The... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1844 - 94 strani
...chain'd his country, gay, Or he whose virtue sigh'd to lose a day ? VI. ' But sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.' What then ? Is the reward of virtue...? 150 That, 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1846 - 328 strani
...chain'd his country say, Or he whose virtue sigh'd to lose a day ? VI. ' But sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.' What then ? Is the reward of virtue...? 150 That, 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... | |
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