 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 452 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 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...? 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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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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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. 
