 | Robert Kidd - 1883 - 518 pagine
...not tell, But this I know, and know right well, I do not like thee, Doctor Fell. 5. If virtue starves while vice is fed, What then? Is the reward of virtue bread? 6. This letter was written by William Penn. 7. I said an older soldier, not a better: Did I say a better... | |
 | Robert Kidd - 1883 - 518 pagine
...have the painful consolation to fall as a fragment of the ruins of my country. 5. If virtue starves while vice is fed, What then? Is the reward of virtue bread? TRANSITION. Transition, in elocution, signifies a sudden change in the pitch, force, quality, quantity,... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 pagine
...— which is, to pass for good. 5510 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 89. Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed, What then? Is the reward of virtue bread? 5511 Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 149. What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy — • The... | |
 | Richard Gosche, Franz Schnorr von Carolsfeld - 1884 - 684 pagine
...Essay on man IV, 149 ff. 'But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed'. What thenV is there ward 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... | |
 | Richard Gosche, Franz Schnorr von Carolsfeld - 1884 - 664 pagine
...Essay on man IV, 149 ff. 'But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed'. What then? is there ward 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 rtiain, Where folly... | |
 | Truths - 1885 - 572 pagine
...forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. SFtrtur. — Pope. 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1887 - 224 pagine
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 | Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 pagine
...whose virtue sighed to lose a day ? " But sometimes virtue starves, while vice iз fed." What then t the luxury which the difficulty incloses, but the difficulty ; not the filbert, but the deserves it, when he tills the soil, The knave deserves it, when he tempts the main, Where folly fights... | |
 | 1888 - 948 pagine
...Our old-time poet well answers the objection we are considering : — " 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... | |
 | 1888 - 972 pagine
...Our old-time poet well answers the objection we are considering : — " 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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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. 
