 | 1826 - Počet stránok 434
...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'i Poems, vol.... | |
 | George Crabb - 1826 - Počet stránok 768
...want of prudence and discernment not to pursue some plan on every occasion which requires method ; Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. DRYDEK. Will ye not now the pair of sages praise, Who the same end pursu'd by several ways ? DBYDEN.... | |
 | 1828 - Počet stránok 454
...scenes of crowded life ; Then say how hope and fear, &c. Hear how Dryden dashes into this at once : — Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. He beats even the closeness of the Latin ; and never dreams of such a useless first line as that in... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - Počet stránok 354
...always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there, while their own runs to ruin.^J~ MCXLV. 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 f Dryden's Juvenal.... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - Počet stránok 390
...abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there, while their own runs to ruin.— Pope. MCXLV. 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! Drydcn's Juvenal. MCXLVL... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - Počet stránok 828
...propitious still to me, Conduct my steps to find the fatal tree, In this deep forest. Dryden'i Mneid. How void of reason are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduct of our life appears So well designed, so luckily begun, But when we have our wish, we wish undone ? Id. Juvenal. Shame... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - Počet stránok 442
...impossible to gain an exact habitude, without an infinite number of acu and perpetual practice. Id. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue. Id. No civil broils have since his death arose, But faction uow by habit does obey ; And wars have... | |
 | John Dryden - 1833 - Počet stránok 326
...have these, it is not much matter what we want besides ; for we have already enough to make us happy. 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, 5 But, when we have our wish, we wish undone ? Whole houses, of... | |
 | Lady Catherine Pollock Manners Stepney - 1833 - Počet stránok 300
...RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET. (SUCCESSOR TO HENRY COLBURN.) THE NEW ROAD TO RUIN. CHAPTER I. Look round the habitable world ; how few Know their...and fears ! What in the conduct of our life appears So well designed, so luckily begun, But, when we have our wish, we wish undone ? DRYDEN. " I AM so... | |
 | 1836 - Počet stránok 1118
...Vera bona. atque illis multurn divcria, remota Erroria nebula Jr?. Sat. x. I. Look round the nabitable world, how few Know their own good. or. knowing It, pursue ? How rarely reanon guidée the «ubborn choir«, „••••" Prompt! the fumi wish, or lift» II..-... | |
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Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue. 
