 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.  Der Mensch, ein philosophisches Gedicht - Page 39by Alexander Pope - 1772 - 351 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...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...vice may merit, 'tis the price of toil ; The knave deserves it, when he tills the soil. * Alluding to the fate of those two great naturalists, Empedocles... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel B. EMMONS - English language - 1832 - 168 pages
...he, whose virtue sigh'd to lose a day? " But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed," AVhatthen? 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 - 1835 - 350 pages
...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 bread ? 150 That vice may merit ; 'tis the price of toil ; The knave deserves it, when he tills the soil... | |
 | George Rogers - Universalism - 1837 - 204 pages
...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 —... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...his country! Or he whose virtue sigh'd to lose a day ! [кау, " But sometimes virtue stArves,whilc vice is fed." What then! Is the reward of virtue bread!...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... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...whose virtue sigh'd to lose a day ? " But sometimes Virtue starves, while Vice is fed.' Whal ihcn ? t less when spirits immortal sing?) Suspended Hell, and took with ravishment The throng deserves it, when he tills the soil ; The knave deserves it, when he tempts the main, Where folly fights... | |
 | Free thought - 1842 - 1124 pages
...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...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... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...country, say, Or he whose virtue sigh'd to lose a day T " But sometimes Virtue starves, whils»Vice deserves it, when he tills the soil ; The knave deserves it, when he tempts the main, Where folly fights... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...choin'd his country, say Or he whose virtue sigh'd to lose a day i " But sometimes Virtue starves, l That, Vice may merit, 'tis the price of toil ; The knave deserves it, when he tills the soil ; The... | |
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