 | 1884 - 984 pàgines
...above." And there is hardly any one familiar with Mr. Cooper who has not heard more times than once: " O happiness ! our being's end and aim ! Good, pleasure,...still which prompts th' eternal sigh, For which we Dear to live or dare to die." " Remember, man, ' the universal cause Acts not by partial but by general... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 pàgines
...conformity to the ORDER of PROVIDENCE here, and a Resignation to it here and hereafter, VER. 325, &c. Oh Happiness ! our being's end and aim ! Good, Pleasure,...eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die, Which still so near us, yet beyond us lies, 5 O'er-look'd, seen double, by the fool, and wise. Plant... | |
 | Anna Seward - 1810 - 416 pàgines
...happiness, guiltless happiness ; surely then it matters little what are the ingredients which form it ! " O ! happiness, our being's end and aim, Good, pleasure, ease, content, — whate'er thy name !" this honest couple do certainly possess thee. She will laugh, and give and eat good dinners, and... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood, Ronald N. Woods - 1989 - 320 pàgines
...other (see Hicks 1982, 301). 89 Consumer Surplus: The First Hundred Years RB Ekelund Jr. and RF Hebert O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure,...Whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die. ALEXANDER POPE, An Essay on Man Introduction... | |
 | J. Gay Tulip Meeks - 1991 - 190 pàgines
...an exciting novelty in the eighteenth century. In a celebrated couplet, Alexander Pope exulted: Oh happiness. Our Being's End and Aim, Good, Pleasure, Ease, Content, Whate'er thy Name. Happiness, bonheur, hailed, it has been said, by the eighteenthcentury philosophers as 'a new word... | |
 | Steven Lukes - 1995 - 284 pàgines
...calculating in the streets? What, he asked Alexander Pope, is happiness? 'Oh Happiness!' replied Pope, 'our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content!...whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die, Which still so near us, yet beyond us... | |
 | Henry H. Brown - 1996 - 114 pàgines
...have already found, leads towards the goal. And that goal is happiness. Pope saw this when he said: O Happiness, our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content, whate'er thy name I He solved the problem — the universal goal is Happiness. Man pursues this goal instinctively. Thus... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pàgines
...nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same. 8907 An Essay on Man Oh Q 7R 5 c J /Ɏ M $a+x-'uB @ th'etemal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die. 8908 An Essay on Man A wit's a feather,... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 772 pàgines
...progress. II HAPPINESS The present is the Age of Pastime, the Golden Reign of Pleasure SAMUEL FAWCONER1 Oh Happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, Pleasure, Ease, Content! Whate'er thy name ALEXANDER POPE2 What is the pulse of this so busy world? The love of pleasure . . . EDWARD YOUNG3 /will... | |
 | Madan M. Sauldie - 2004 - 269 pàgines
...this respect, one should recall the words of the great English poet, Alexander Pope (1688-1744): 0' happiness ! Our being's end and aim; Good, pleasure,...eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die. Evidently there is no common denominator for judging happiness, or, for that matter, unhappiness of... | |
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OH happiness ! our being's end and aim ! Good, pleasure, ease, content ? whate'er thy name : That something still which prompts th' eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die, Which still so near us, yet beyond us lies, O'er-look'd, seen... 
