 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.  Essai sur l'homme - Página 97por Alexander Pope - 1762 - 116 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 páginas
...chained 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 ;... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 páginas
...kind of food thy choice, To which necessity confines thy price. I)ryden. 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. Pope. PRIDE. 511 PRIDE. AN eagle, towering in his pride of place,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 336 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1855 - 326 páginas
...prince, th' Eternal Cause Prone for his favourites to reverse his laws ? ' If ' sometimes virtue wants while vice is fed, What then ? is the reward of virtue bread 1 That vice may merit, 'tis the price of toil, The knave deserves it when he tills the soil ; Conventional... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 páginas
...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...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, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 páginas
...whose virtue sigh'd to lose a day 1 148 ' But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed.' What then 1 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 knave deserves it, when he tempts the main, Where Folly fights... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 páginas
...chain'd his country, say, Or he whose virtue sigh'd to lose a day 1 its ' But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed.' What then ? Is the reward of virtue bread 1 That, vice may merit, 'tis the price of toil ; The knave deserves it, when he tills the soil, The... | |
 | 1856 - 416 páginas
...prince, th' Eternal Cause Prone for his favourites to reverse his laws ? ' If ' sometimes virtue wants 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... | |
 | 1855 - 338 páginas
...for his favourites to reverse his laws ? ' If ' sometimes virtue wants while vice is fed, What then 1 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 knave deserves it when he tempts the main, Where folly lights... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 páginas
...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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