 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - Počet stránok 334
...morning calls again to toil, begin anew thy journey and thy life." VANITY THE PASSION OF LITTLE MINDS. " How few Know their own good; or, knowing it, pursue ? How void of reason are our hopes and fears?" Juv.—DRYDEM'S Tram. Some of these instructers of mankind have not contented themselves with checking... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - Počet stránok 714
...Glorious John Dryden, and compare his directness with the pompous pleonasms of the author of the Rambler. Look round the habitable world; how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. Hazlitt, I think, mentions that it was Wordsworth who first drew attention to these parallel passages.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - Počet stránok 674
...been avoided. But such mistakes are not new ; history is full of the errors of states and princes. . "Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!" Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - Počet stránok 354
...Glorious John Dryden, and compare his directness with the pompous pleonasms of the author of the Rambler. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. * There are, however, many very fine monosyllabic lines in English Poetry. Hazlitt, I think, mentions... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - Počet stránok 352
...Glorious John Dryden, and compare his directness with the pompous pleonasms of the author of the Rambler. Look round the habitable world; how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. Hazlitt, I think, mentions that it was Wordsworth who first drew attention to these parallel passages.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - Počet stránok 624
...NOVEMBER 3, 1750. -Panci Y era linón. Hltfue ülit multum tíirtrta, remota Errurif »tbitla. Jl'V ries, and long hesitation генюп are our hopes tmd fears? UKTDLlt. THE folly of human wishes and pursuits has always been... | |
 | John Davis - 1841 - Počet stránok 364
...passionate exclamation of the great Roman satirist. I will give it you in the version of glorious John : " Look round the habitable world, how few Know their...void of reason are our hopes and fears, What in the compass of our life appears So well designed, so happily begun, But, when we hare our wish, we wish... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - Počet stránok 944
...pauci diffnoscere poasunt Vera bona, atque illis multum di versa, remola Erroria nebula Jm. Bat. x. L ere as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me: When his candle shine 1 How rarely reason guides the stubborn choice, Prompts the fond wish, or lilts tbc suppliant voice... | |
 | Thomas Bardel Brindley - 1843 - Počet stránok 160
...after this unhappy youth died, in all the awful ravings of madness and despair. No. 10. VALENTINE. " Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue ? How rarely reason guides the stubborn choice ?" JUVENAL. " No more was seen the human form divine." HOMER.... | |
 | David Saville Muzzey - 1915 - Počet stránok 634
...been avoided. But such mistakes are not new ; history is full of the errors of states and princes. " Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue ! " Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble... | |
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Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue. 
