 Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul, or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself...  The Odes of Horace: In Four Books Translated Into English Lyric Verse - Strana 378podľa Horace - 1858 - Počet stránok 475Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | John Dryden - 1837 - Počet stránok 478
...are from their old foundations torn, And woods, made thin with winds, their scatter'd honours mourn. Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call...secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for l have liv'd to-day. Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys l have possess'd, in spite of fate,... | |
 | Počet stránok 952
...you must feel that the very height of human ambition must be to realize the language of the poet. " Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call to-day hia own ; lie who unmoved within can say To-morrow do thy worst, for 1 have lived to-day. Come foul... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - Počet stránok 482
...their old foundations torn, And woods, made thin with winds, their scatterM honours mourn. Happy tile man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own : Ho who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do tliy worst, for I have liv'd to-day. Be fair, or foul,... | |
 | Joel Pinney - 1838 - Počet stránok 256
...instance of self-deception than is contained in the following infatuated exclamation of a free-liver ? " To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day :...I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine; Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour." Hour indeed,... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - 1840 - Počet stránok 208
...laws do not allow him to possess. When he has consumed a thing he is sure of it, and only then — Be fair or foul, or rain or shine The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine, Nor heaven itself upon the past has power, But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. The... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - Počet stránok 334
...the reach of accident or violence, nor can be lost either by our own weakness or another's malice : " Be fair or foul, or rain or shine, The joys I have possess'd, in spite of fate are mine Nor Heaven itself upon the past has power, Bat what has been,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1841 - Počet stránok 790
...might well lay down the reins of office and say — " To-morrow do thy worst, for I have liv'd my day; Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine — The joys I have possess'd, in spite of fate are mine; Not heaven itself, upon the past has pow'r— What has been,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1841 - Počet stránok 608
...lines of Dryden, in which he has improved even upon the noble original : * Be fair, or foul, or raiu, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of Fate, are nriiic: Not Jove him Mi upon the past has power, But what haa been, ka* bttn, and I have had my hour.'... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - Počet stránok 692
...are from their old foundations torn ; And -woods, made thin with winds, their scatta'd honours mourn. * Y EP ! #f A a Kr@ *f # F[ ? w qI QMD UB Z A G \ N G XzSڙ7 Til-morrow do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day. Be fair or foul, or rain or shine, The joys I have... | |
 | Rose Ellen Temple - 1846 - Počet stránok 984
...doubt the angels above, in choral sounds, echoed again and again, " The sinner prays !" CHAPTER XVI. Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call...Be fair or foul, or rain or shine, The joys I have possess'd, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, But what has been,... | |
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