 | Thomas Brown - 1833 - 800 pages
...all the frivolous relations which he can be imagined to bear to impossibilities and nonentities. O, sons of earth ! attempt ye still to rise, By mountains...mountains, to the skies ! Heaven still, with laughter, the vain toil survey! And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.* It is indeed, then, to borrow Mr Locke's... | |
 | Lady Catherine Pollock Manners Stepney - 1833 - 324 pages
...informed how slightly they were remembered by their late uncle, either in word or deed. CHAPTER II. Oh ! sons of earth ! attempt ye still to rise, By mountains piled on mountains, to the skies ? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys. And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. Essay... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...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. 70 Know, all the good that individuals... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 332 pages
...in fear : 70 Not present good or ill, the joy or curse, 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...these in fear: Not present good or ill, the joy or curse, But future views of better, or of worse. Pope $ crown'd goblet foams with floods of wine. BOOK XI. ATiGU mouut&ins, to the skies ? Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys, Aixl buries madmen in the... | |
 | John Frederick Boyes - 1842 - 332 pages
...Terra malos homines nunc educat atque pusillos Ergo deus quicunque aspexit, ridet et odit. Juv. Xv. О 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. Pope's Essay on Man. He that sittefh... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1843 - 50 pages
...these in fear : Not present good or ill, the joy or curse, 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1844 - 94 pages
...these in fear : 70 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, 75 And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. III. Know, all the good that individuals... | |
 | Thomas Brown, David Welsh - 1846 - 580 pages
...all the frivolous relations which he can be imagined to bear to impossibilities and nonentities. 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.1 i Pope's Essay on Man, Ep. iv. 73-76.... | |
 | Thomas South - 1846 - 164 pages
...every where imparting its free flowing fecundity, plays on securely and uninterruptedly within. " O sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise By mountains...mountains to the skies ? Heaven still with laughter your vain toil surveys And buries madmen in the heaps they raise." To expect or even wish for felicity... | |
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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. 
