 T enjoy the World's Conveniences, Be fam'd in War, yet live in Ease, Without great Vices, is a vain EUTOPIA seated in the Brain. Fraud, Luxury and Pride must live, While we the Benefits receive: Hunger's a dreadful Plague, no doubt Yet who digests or...  Bernard de Mandeville's Bienenfabel ... - Page 19by Paul Goldbach - 1886 - 71 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Blakey - 1833 - 402 pages
...throughout the Poem. " Then leave complaints, fools only strive To make a great, an honest hive. T' enjoy the world's conveniences, Be fam'd in war, yet live...great vices, is a vain Eutopia seated in the brain; Fraud, luxury, and pride must live, Whilst we the benefits receive; Hunger's a dreadful plague, no... | |
 | William Law - 1844 - 224 pages
...THE MORAL. THEN leave complaints : fools only strive To make a great and honest hive. 410 T' enjoy the world's conveniences, Be fam'd in war, yet live...great vices, is a vain Eutopia seated in the brain. Fraud, luxury, and pride, must live, 41.5 While we the benefits receive : Hunger's a dreadful plague,... | |
 | 1868 - 658 pages
...ruined. " Fools only strive To make a groat, an honest hive. T' enjoy the world's conveniences, Be famed in war, yet live in ease Without great vices, is a vain Eutopia seated in the brain. Fraud, luxury, and pride must live, Whilst we the benefit receive. « * * » • So vice ia beneficial... | |
 | John Hunt - 1871 - 514 pages
...XL ' Fools only strive To make a great, an honest hive. T' enjoy the world's conveniences, Be famed in war, yet live in ease Without great vices, is a vain Eutopia seated in the brain. Fraud, luxury, and pride must live, Whilst we the benefit receive. ***•* So vice is beneficial found... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1873 - 380 pages
...: fools only strive To make a great an honest hive — To enjoy the world's conveniences, Be famed in war, yet live in ease, Without great vices, is a vain Utopia, seated in the brain. A comment follows expounding this cynical theory in detail. In subsequent... | |
 | 1873 - 822 pages
...complaints: fools only strive To make a great an honest hive — To enjoy the world's conveniences, Be famed in war, yet live in ease, Without great vices, is a vain Utopia, seated in the brain. A comment follows expounding this cynical theory in detail. In subsequent... | |
 | 1873 - 808 pages
...complaints: fools only strive To mnko a great an honest hive — To enjoy the world's conveniences, Be famed in war, yet live in ease, Without great vices, is a vain Utopia, seated in the brain. A comment follows expounding this cynical theory in detail. In subsequent... | |
 | 1886 - 788 pages
...the moral is : " Then leave complaints : fools only strive To make a great, an honest hive. T' enjoy the world's conveniences, Be fam'd in war, yet live in ease, Without great vices, is a vain Utopia, seated in the brain. . . . So vice is beneficial found, When 'tis by justice lopp'd and bound... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1889 - 440 pages
...striven to show that a hive of prosperous vicious bees was ruined by becoming virtuous : " To enjoy the world's conveniences, Be fam'd in war, yet live in ease, Without great vices, is a vain Utopia seated in the brain ; Fraud, luxury, and pride must live, Whilst we the benefits receive. .... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1889 - 462 pages
...striven to show that a hive of prosperous vicious bees was ruined by becoming virtuous : " To enjoy the world's conveniences, Be fam'd in war, yet live in ease, Without great vices, is a vain Utopia seated in the brain ; Fraud, luxury, and pride must live, Whilst we the benefits receive. .... | |
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