 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
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - Počet stránok 462
...dignoscere possunt I'l'rn bona, atque illis multum diverta, remote Errorii nebula.— ivv. — — — How few Know their own good ; or knowing it, pursue ! How void of reason are Our hopes and fears !— — BEYDBH. THE folly of human wishes and pursuits has been a standing subject of mirth and declamation,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - Počet stránok 456
...OCTOBER 27, 1753. Quid tarn dexlro pede concipis, ut te Conatus non ptentieat voliyie peracti ? — juv. What in the conduct of our life appears So well design'd, so luckily begun, But, when we have our wish, we wish undone. — DRYDEN. TO THE ADVENTURER. SIR, I HAVE been for many years a trader in London.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - Počet stránok 466
...N° 102. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 17.33. turn ili.rtrf) pede concipis, ut te Conatus non pccniteat vo What in the conduct of our life appears So well design'd, so luckily begun, But, when we have our wish, we wish undone. — DRYDEN. TO THE ADVENTURER. SIR, I HAVE been for many years a trader in London.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - Počet stránok 462
...1750. Pauci dignoscere possunt Vera bona, atque illis multum diversa, remold ETTOTIS nebula. JlJT. How few Know their own good ; or, knowing it, pursue ! How void of reason are our hopes and fears ! DBVDEN. THE folly of human wishes and pursuits has always been a standing subject of mirth and declamation,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - Počet stránok 472
...NOVEMBER 3, 1750. • Pauet dignotccre possunt Fera bona, atque illis multum diversa, remott Erroris - How few Know their own good ; or knowing it, pursue ! How void of reason are our hopes and fears ! >RT»EN. THE iblly of human wishes and pursuits has always been a standing subject of mirth and declamation,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - Počet stránok 462
...OCTOBER 27, 1753. Quid tarn dextro pede concipis, ut te Conalus non pceniteat votique peracti ? — juv. What in the conduct of our life appears So well design'd, so luckily begun, But, when we have our wish, we wish undone. — DRYDEN. TO THE ADVENTURER. SIR, I HAVE been for many years a trader in London.... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - Počet stránok 444
...these, it is not much matter what vie want besides ; for we have already enough to make us happy. LOOK round the habitable world, how few ., Know their own...fears! What in the conduct of our life appears So well designed, so luckily begun, But when we have our wish, we wish undone ? Whole houses, of their whole... | |
 | 1821 - Počet stránok 618
...surpasses the original. What can be more beautifully easy and simple than the opening ? — " Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue." And yet how he warms with his subject as he advances, pouring forth thoughts that breathe, and words... | |
 | 1821 - Počet stránok 818
...surpasses the original. What can be more beautifully easy and simple than the opening ? — '• Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue." And yet how he warms with his subject as he advances, pouring forth thought that breathe, and words... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1822 - Počet stránok 508
...me leave to fortify my unlearned reader with another bit of wisdom from Juvenal by Dryden : ' Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own...design'd, so luckily begun, But, when we have our wish, we wish undone !' Even the men that are distinguished by, and envied for, their superior good... | |
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