To check, not overcome, them, makes a saint.
Can Nature in a plainer voice proclaim
Pleasure, and glory, the chief good of man?”
Can Pride, and Sensuality, rejoice?
From purity of thought, all pleasure springs;
And, from an humble spirit, all our peace. 410
Ambition, pleasure! let us talk of these:
Of these, the Porch, and Academy, talk’d;
Of these, each following age had much to say:
Yet, unexhausted, still, the needful theme.