LOOK round the habitable world, how few ., Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue. How void of reason are our hopes and fears! What in the conduct of our life appears So well... Select British Classics - Strana 2771803Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
| Juvenal - 1735 - Počet stránok 512
...theft, ''tit not much matter what we want bejides; Jtr me tave already enough to make us happy. LOOK round the Habitable World, how few Know their own Good ; or knowing it, purfue. HowvoidofReafonare our Hopes and Fears! What in the Conduct of our Life appears So well defign'd,... | |
| Rob Steele - 1740 - Počet stránok 368
...round the habitable World, hciufrw Know their oiun Cood, or knowing it purfue ? Ho<w -void of Reafon are our Hopes and Fears ! What in the Conduct of our Life appears So ivell dejign d. fo luckily begun, But, iL'hen we have our Wi/h, lue iKifh undone ? EVEN the Men that... | |
| John Dryden - 1760 - Počet stránok 476
...is not much matter what •we want bejides ; for we have already enough to make us happy. X 2 LOOK round the habitable world, how few Know their own good ; or knowing it, purfue. How void of reafon are our hopes and fears! What in the conduct of our life appears So well... | |
| John Dryden - 1760 - Počet stránok 476
...tbefe, it is not much matter what we want bejides ; for we have already enough to make us happy. LOOK round the habitable world, how few Know their own good; or knowing it, purfue. How void of reafon are our hopes and fears! What in the conduft of our life appears So well... | |
| Thomas Amory - 1766 - Počet stránok 572
...righteoufnefs, and the punifhment of wickednefs unto a future flate of cxiftence. SECTION SEGTION XIII. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good ; or knowing it, purfue. How void of reafon are our hopes and fears 1 What in the conduct of our life appears So well... | |
| 1766 - Počet stránok 768
...Review, yo). xi. p. 501. : Section xiii opens with the following motto, from Dryden's Juvenal : ' Look rou.nd, the habitable world, how few Know their own good ; or knowing it, purfue. .How void of realbn are our hopes and fears! What in the conrluftof our life appears So well... | |
| Thomas Amory - 1766 - Počet stránok 558
...righteoufnefs, and the puniflimcnt of wickednefs unto a future ftate of cxiftence. SECTION XIII. ' Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good ; or knowing it, purfue. How void of reafon are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduft of our life appears ( So well... | |
| John Dryden - 1767 - Počet stránok 398
...thefe, it is not much matter iahat iut want be/ides ; for we have already enough to make us happy. LOOK round the habitable world, how few Know their own good; or knowing it, purfue. How void of reafon are our hopes and fears ! What in the condud of our life appears So well... | |
| Thomas Amory - 1770 - Počet stránok 406
...Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good; or knowing it, purfue. How void of reafon are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduct of our life appears So well defign'd, fo luckily begun, But, when we have our wifh, wewifh undone ? The tenth Satire of Juvenal.... | |
| 1776 - Počet stránok 296
...12, 1753. — — " Pauci dignofcere poflunt " Vera bona, atque illis multum diverfa."— Juv. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, purfue. IT is a common obfervation, that though happinefs is every man's aim, and though it is generally... | |
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