 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 sayfa
...who chain'd his country, Or he whose virtue sigh'd to lose a day ? — ' 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... | |
 | William Jevons - 1827 - 412 sayfa
...Publication of Opinions and on other Subjects, p. 212, 213. NOTE P. p. 203. "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 - 1828 - 264 sayfa
...chain'd his country, say, Or he whese virtue sigh'd to lose a day ? VI. ' But sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.' What then ? Is the reward of virtue bread ? 160 That, vice may merit, 'tis the price of toil ; The knave deserves it, when he till's the soil... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 452 sayfa
...infers from hence That such are happier,— shocks all common sense. But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed : What then ? — is the reward of virtue bread ? 4. The metrical accent of poetry is subordinate to sense, and to established usage in pronunciation.... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 sayfa
...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 sayfa
...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 - 1832 - 168 sayfa
...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 - 1832 - 86 sayfa
...chain'd his country, say, Or he whose virtue sigh'd to lose a day ? , " 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.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 sayfa
...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 - 1837 - 204 sayfa
...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 —... | |
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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. 
