O happiness our being's end and aim
- DMI number:
- 12324
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- O happiness our being's end and aim
- Last Line:
- And all our knowledge is ourselves to know
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Essay and Couplet
- Themes:
- Philosophical enquiry
- Author:
- Alexander Pope
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Essay on Man Epistle IV. Twickenham edition III i.
- First Line:
- Awake my St John leave all meaner things
- Last Line:
- One truth is clear whatever is is right
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Know then thyself presume not god to scan
- Last Line:
- Tis this though man's a fool yet god is wise
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Learn dullness learn the universal cause
- Last Line:
- And bade self love and social be the same
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- First Line:
- A wit's a feather and a chief's a rod
- Last Line:
- Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas
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- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Fortune in men has some small difference made
- Last Line:
- I'll tell you friend a wise man and a fool
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
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- Grasp the whole world of reason life and sense
- Last Line:
- And height of bliss but height of charity
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- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Here then we rest the universal cause
- Last Line:
- And bade self love and social be the same
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- First Line:
- O happiness our being's end and aim
- Last Line:
- Lie in three words health peace and competence
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- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- O sons of earth attempt ye still to rise
- Last Line:
- And buries madmen in the heaps they raise
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- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Then know this truth enough for man to know
- Last Line:
- Since but to wish more virtue is to gain
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- To whom can riches give repute or trust
- Last Line:
- An honest man's the noblest work of god
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of moral and sacred poems from the most celebrated English authors [vol I] [T16524] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.335-347
- Poem Title:
- Epistle IV.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Poems, a chosen collection [N21151]
- Page No(s):
- pp.61-80
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Man. Epistle IV.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of poems [T120670] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.129-139
- Poem Title:
- Epistle IV.
- Attribution:
- By Alexander Pope, Esq.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- Title:
- A collection of poems, essays and epistles [T119421] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.43-55
- Poem Title:
- Epistle IV.
- Attribution:
- By Alexander Pope Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- Title:
- A collection of poems, essays and epistles [T167515] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.43-55
- Poem Title:
- Epistle I. [sic]
- Attribution:
- By Alexander Pope, Esq.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- Title:
- A collection of poems, essays and epistles [T167516] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.43-55
- Poem Title:
- Epistle IV.
- Attribution:
- By Alexander Pope, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- Title:
- A collection of poems. [T121161] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.43-55
- Poem Title:
- Epistle IV.
- Attribution:
- Alexander Pope, Esq.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
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Pope. Essay on Man. Epistle 4.
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