Wise wretch ! with pleasures too refined to please ; With too much spirit to be e'er at ease; With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but... Queen Victoria - Página 85por Lytton Strachey - 1921 - 434 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 páginas
...impotence of mind ? A spark too fickle, or a sponse too kind. Wise wretch ! with pleasures too relin'd to please ; With too much spirit to be e'er at ease ; With too much quickness ever to be taught ; With too much thinking to have common thought; You purchase pain with all that... | |
| 1808 - 408 páginas
...impotence of mind? A spark too fickle, or a spouse too kind. Wise wretch ! with pleasures too refin'd to please ; With too much spirit to be e'er at ease; With too mueb quickness ever to be taught ; With too much thiukinj to have commun thought ; You purchase pain... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 páginas
...impotence of mind ? A spark too fickle, or a spouse too kind. Wise wretch ! with pleasures too refin'd to please ; With too much spirit to be e'er at ease; With too much quickness ever to be taught ; With too much thiuking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that... | |
| William Beloe - 1817 - 456 páginas
...of her ways ; have discovered a less dangerous and obstructed path, and auspiciously pursued it. 367 With pleasures too refined to please, With too much...spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought. CHAPTER LIV. DIFFERENT as light from... | |
| William Beloe - 1817 - 462 páginas
...less dangerous and obstructed path, and auspiciously pursued it. With pleasures too refined to pleasey With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought. CHAPTER LIV. DIFFERENT as light from... | |
| John Aikin - 1820 - 832 páginas
...impotence of mind ? A spark too fickle, or a spouse too kind ? Wise wretch ! with pleasures too refin'd st, sole undertook The dismal expedition to find out And ruin Adam ; and the ever to be taught ; With too much thinking to have common thought : You purchase pain with all that... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 402 páginas
...impotence of mind ? A spark too fickle, or a spouse too kind? Wise wretch ! with pleasures too refin'd to please ; With too much spirit to be e'er at ease ; With too much quickness ever to be taught ; With too much thinking to have common thought . You purchase pain with all that... | |
| 1822 - 284 páginas
...Say, what can cause such impotence of mind ? A spark too fickle, or a spouse too kind. Wise wretch ! with pleasures too refined to please; With too much...spirit to be e'er at ease ; With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought; You purchase pain with all that joy... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 430 páginas
...Say, what can cause such impotence < f mind ? A spark too fickle, or a spouse too kind. Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please; With too much...spirit to be e'er at ease : With too much quickness ever to be taught ; With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 páginas
...Say, what can cause such impotence of mind ? A spark too fickle, or a spouse too kind. Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please; With too much...spirit to be e'er at ease : With too much quickness ever to be taught ; With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that... | |
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