Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul, or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself... Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Página 41821Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Barclay Mounteney - 1824 - 580 páginas
...the name of any man, and transmute that which is, into that which had long ceased to exist ? — " Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possess'd at least are mine ; Not Heav'n itself upon the past has pow'r ; What has been has been, and I've had... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 538 páginas
...tfliciet : neque Diflinsret, infectumque reddet, Quodfugiens seinel horn veiit. HOK. lib. isi. Od-29. 45. Be fair or foul, or rain or shine, The joys I have possess'd, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heav'n itself upon the past has pow'r, But what has been has been, and I have had my honr. DtvBE«.... | |
| William Godwin - 1831 - 504 páginas
...regard them as of no account. Taken in this sense, Drvden-s celebrated verses are but a maniac-s rant: J To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have lived to-day :...fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power, But what has been... | |
| John Dryden - 1832 - 342 páginas
...woods, made thin with winds, their scatter'd honours mourn. Happy the man, and happy he alone, fis He, who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day. Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, [mine. The joys I have possess'd, in spite of fate,... | |
| John Dryden - 1837 - 478 páginas
...are from their old foundations torn, And woods, made thin with winds, their scatter'd honours mourn. Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call...secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for l have liv'd to-day. Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys l have possess'd, in spite of fate,... | |
| 952 páginas
...you must feel that the very height of human ambition must be to realize the language of the poet. " Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call to-day hia own ; lie who unmoved within can say To-morrow do thy worst, for 1 have lived to-day. Come foul... | |
| John Dryden - 1837 - 482 páginas
...their old foundations torn, And woods, made thin with winds, their scatterM honours mourn. Happy tile man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own : Ho who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do tliy worst, for I have liv'd to-day. Be fair, or foul,... | |
| Joel Pinney - 1838 - 256 páginas
...instance of self-deception than is contained in the following infatuated exclamation of a free-liver ? " To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day :...fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine; Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, But what has been,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 334 páginas
...the reach of accident or violence, nor can be lost either by our own weakness or another's malice : " Be fair or foul, or rain or shine, The joys I have possess'd, in spite of fate are mine Nor Heaven itself upon the past has power, Bat what has been, has been, and 1 have had my hour." DXYDEN.... | |
| Richard Hildreth - 1840 - 208 páginas
...laws do not allow him to possess. When he has consumed a thing he is sure of it, and only then — Be fair or foul, or rain or shine The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine, Nor heaven itself upon the past has power, But what has been,... | |
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