 | Alexander Chalmers - 1822
...we could obtain, Would soon create a future pain.' Give me leave to fortify my unlearned reader with another bit of wisdom from Juvenal by Dryden : ' Look...and fears ! What in the conduct of our life appears So well design'd, so luckily begun, But, when we have our wish, we wish undone !' Even the men that... | |
 | British poets - 1822
...want besides; for we have already enough to make us happy. LOOK round the habitable world, how fewKnow their own good ; or, knowing it, pursue ! How void...and fears ! What in the conduct of our life appears So well design'd, so luckily begun, But, when we have our wish, we wish undone? VOL. II. B Whole houses,... | |
 | British essayists - 1823
...we could obtain, Would soon create a future pain ! Give me leave to fortify my unlearned reader with another bit of wisdom from Juvenal, by Dryden : Look...and fears ! What in the conduct of our life appears So well design'd, so luckily begun, But, when we have our wish, we wish undone ! * Prior's Poems, vol.... | |
 | Thomas Amory - 1823 - Počet stránok 342
...too many doctors in town and country, but by practising upon consistent principles. CHAPTER XXIII. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their...and fears ! What in the conduct of our life appears So well design'd, so luckily begun, But, when we have our wish, we wish undone ! The Tenth Satire of... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823
...3, 1750. Fauci dignoscen possunt Vera bona, atquc illis mnllum diversa, remota Erroris nebula. JOT. How few Know their own good ; or, knowing it, pursue ? How void of reason are our hopes and fears ? !)u VIIKV. THE folly of human wishes and pursuits has always been a standing subject of mirth and... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823
...pauci dignoscere possunt Vera buna, atque illis inultum diversa, remota Erroris nebula Juv. Sat. x. 1. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue? Hon rarely reason guides the stubborn choice, Prompts the fond wish, or lifts the suppliant voice ?... | |
 | 1824
...dignoscere possunt VETO, bana, atque Hits multum diversa, remota Erroris nebula Joy. Sat. 10. v. 1. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue. 1 )n » N.KV In my last Saturday's paper (No. 201,) I laid down some thoughts upon devotion in general,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825
...rtignoscere possunt Vera bona, atque .'///'., multum diverse, remotd Erraris nebula. Juv. Sat. x. 2. -How few Know their own good ; or, knowing it, pursue ! How void of reason are our hopes and fears ! URYDEN. TH B folly of human wishes and pursuits has always been a standing subject of mirth and declamation,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825
...pouunt Vtra boaa, atque illii muttnm diversa , remotu Errarit nebula. Juv. Sat. x. 2. — — — Hbw few Know their own good ; or, knowing it, pursue ! How void of reason are our hopes and fears ! DRYDEN. THE folly of human wishes and pursuits has always been a standing subject of mirth and declamation,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1825 - Počet stránok 239
...dignoscere possunt Vera Luna, atque illis inultnm diversa, remotd. Erroris nebula Jpv. Sat. X. 1. 1. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good ; or, knowing it, pursue ! DRYDEN. IN my last Saturday's paper I laid down some thoughts upon devotion in general, and shall... | |
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Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue. 
