 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
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 60 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... | |
 | Goold Brown - 1860 - 354 páginas
...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 - 542 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 'I That, vice may merit, 'tis the price of toil ; The knave deserves it, when he tills the soil, The... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 páginas
...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... | |
 | John Antrobus (essayist.) - 1862 - 150 páginas
...VINDICATED. " But sometimes VIBTTJE starves while VICE is fed." What then ? Is the reward of VIBTUE 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 - 1878 - 138 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 bread? 150 That vice may merit, 'tis the price of toil; The knave deserves it, when he tills the soil, The... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1879 - 130 páginas
...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.... | |
 | sir John Bowring - 1879 - 626 páginas
...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... | |
 | New Shakspere Society - 342 páginas
...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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 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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