 | Alexander Pope - 1890 - 562 pages
...these in fear: Not present good or ill, the joy or curse, But future views of better, or of worse. Oh, sons of earth ! attempt ye still to rise, By mountains piled on mountains, to the sMes ? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...and these in fear; Not present good Or ill the joy or curse, But future views of better or of worse. Oh sons of earth ! attempt ye still to rise, By mountains...mountains, to the skies •. Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. Know, all the goed that individuals find,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1849 - 638 pages
...these in feu: Tl Nut present good or ill, the joy or corse, But futore views of hetter or of worse. O, sons of earth ! attempt ye still to rise, By mountains...mountains, to the skies? Heaven still with laughter the vain toil sorveys, And kuries madmen in the heaps they raise. llI. Know, all the good that individuals... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 pages
...not all contest? If then to all men happiness was meant, God in externals could not place content. O sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise By mountains...mountains to the skies? Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. Know all the good that individuals find,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...impiety of those, who, in spite of God and Nature, will yet attempt to place Happiness in externals : " Oh sons of earth ! attempt ye still to rise, By mountains...mountains, to the skies ? Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise." VARIATIONS. After Ver. 66. in the MS.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 430 pages
...reward ; In hardest trials operates the best, And more is relish'd as the more distress'd. Warburtm. Oh sons of earth ! attempt ye still to rise, By mountains...mountains, to the skies ? Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys, 75 And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. Know, all the good that individuals... | |
 | John Mason - 1824 - 230 pages
...of the philosopher. See Plut. Mor. vol. i. ad fin. 2 Hab. ii. 9, 10 — that gaineth a wicked gain. Oh sons of earth ! attempt ye still to rise, By mountains piled on mountains to the skies? Xovv no man can truly know himself till he be acquainted with this, which is so often the secret and... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...these in fear : Not present good or ill the joy or curse, But future views of better or of worse. 0 sons of earth ! attempt ye still to rise By mountains...mountains 'to the skies? Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. Know all the good that individuals find,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...fear : 70 Not present good or ill, the joy or curse, But future views of better or of worse. O, eons of earth ! attempt ye still to rise, By mountains piled on mountains, to the skies t Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. III.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...these in fear: Not present good or ill, the joy or curse, 71 But future views of better or of worse. O, sons of earth ! attempt ye still to rise, By mountains...mountains, to the skies ? Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. III. Know, all the good that individuals... | |
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Oh, sons of earth ! attempt ye still to rise, By mountains piled on mountains, to the skies ? Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. 
