 | 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... | |
 | 1776 - Počet stránok 296
...July 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - Počet stránok 384
...have thefe, it is not much matter what we want betides; 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 conduit of our life appear* So well... | |
 | David Simpson - 1780 - Počet stránok 628
...OOK round the habitable World,how few JCnowtheirownGood,orknowing it, purfue. How How vpid ofReafon are our Hopes and Fears ! What in the Conduct of our Life appears So well defign'd, fo luckily begun. But, when we have ourWifh,we wi(h undone ? HYMN CCCXX. 1 TMSMISSuswiththyBIeffing,... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - Počet stránok 388
...thefe, it is not much matter what we want befides; for we have already enough to make us happy. 3. OOK 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 So well... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - Počet stránok 582
...PAUCI DIGNOSCIRE TOSSUNT VF.RA BORA, ATOJJX lLt.lt MULTUM DIVIRSA, RIMOTA IRRORIS NEBULA. . -HOW TIVT KNOW THEIR OWN GOOD; OR KNOWING IT, PURSUE? HOW VOID OF REASON ARE OUR HOPKS AND TEARS ? DRYDIS. THE folly of human wiflies and puriuits has always been a (landing fubjeft... | |
 | 1794 - Počet stránok 450
...illis niultum diversa, remota Erroris nebula —— — juv. »AT. x. 1. " Look round the habitual world, how few , " Know their own good, or knowing it pursue ? " How rarely reason guides the stubborn choice, " Prompts the fond wish, or lifts the suppliant voice ?"... | |
 | 1795 - Počet stránok 758
...round the'habitable world, how few Know their own good, osknowing it, purfue-. Hn'.v 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 wifB, we with' undone ? Whole houfes, of... | |
 | 1797 - Počet stránok 522
...fbon create a future pain.' Give me leave to fortify my unlearned reader with another bit of wifdom from Juvenal, by Dryden : ' 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... | |
 | 1799 - Počet stránok 364
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Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue. 
