And each vacuity of sense by pride: These build as fast as knowledge can destroy; In folly's cup still laughs the bubble joy; One prospect lost, another still we gain; And not a vanity is giv'n in vain ; Ev'n mean self-love becomes, by force divine, The... Ormington, or Cecil, a peer [signed N. or M.]. - Side 9av Catherine Grace F. Gore - 1842Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) - 1842 - 418 sider
...following winter, to be invited to the Pavilion. So paltry are the objects of coterie ambition!—Alas! the typical apple of the Judaical Paradise was no...CHAPTER II. Meanwhile opinion gilds with varying rays, ' Each want of happiness by Hope supplied, Those painted clouds that beautify our days; Then build... | |
| 1842 - 1124 sider
...with this bauble still, ns that before ; Till tir'd he sleeps and life's poor play is o'er! Mean while opinion gilds with varying rays Those painted clouds that beautify our days; Each want of happiriess by hope supply'd And each vacuity of sense by pride. Look round our Wprld ; behold the chain... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1844 - 94 sider
...Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before ; Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er ! Meanwhile opinion gilds with varying rays, Those painted...our days : Each want of happiness by hope supplied, 285 And each vacuity of sense by pride : These build as fast as knowledge can destroy :• In folly's... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 sider
...broke that steady light." For oblique wit is opinion. The other, in the second Epistle, ver. 283. " Meanwhile opinion gilds with varying rays, Those painted clouds that beautify our days," &c. Warburton. Ver. 23. Our depths who fathoms, <fc.] " A mesure qu'on a plus d'esprit," says the profound... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1850 - 94 sider
...Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before; Till tir'd he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er. Meanwhile opinion gilds with varying rays Those painted...beautify our days; Each want of happiness by Hope supply'd , And each vacuity of sense by pride : These build as fast as knowledge can destroy; In folly's... | |
| George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 sider
...Pleased with this bauble still, as that before ; Till, tired, he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er. Meanwhile, opinion gilds with varying rays Those painted...our days : Each want of happiness by hope supplied, 285 And each vacuity of sense by pride : These build as fast as knowledge can destroy ; In folly's... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1853 - 336 sider
...Pleased with this bauble still, as that before; Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er. Meanwhile opinion gilds with varying rays Those painted...our days; Each want of happiness by hope supplied, 285 And each vacuity of sense by pride : These build as fast as knowledge can destroy; In folly's cup... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 sider
...this bauble still, as that before, rm tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o er. Meanwhile opiuion gilds with varying rays Those painted clouds that...our days; Each want of happiness by hope supplied, though man's a fool, yet Godi* EPISTLE III. Of THE NATURE AND STATE OF MAN, WITH RESPECT TO SOCIETY.... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 sider
...Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before; 'Till tir'd he sleeps, and Life's poor play is o'er. Mean-while Opinion gilds with varying rays Those painted clouds that beautify our days; 1 the poet in his Muse.} The author having truth when he published his last Edition of the snid, that... | |
| Alexander Bain - 1872 - 198 sider
...independent meaning, cannot be either limited or extended by an adjective. (See above, p. 113.) 17. Meanwhile opinion gilds with varying rays Those painted clouds that beautify our days. COMPLEX SENTENCE.—A -f- a. I. Subject, 'opinion.' III. Predicate, ' gilds.' IV. Object, ' clouds.'... | |
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