 Happy the man - and happy he alone He who can call today his own, He who, secure within, can say 'Tomorrow, 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...  Gryll Grange - Strana 109podľa Thomas Love Peacock - 1891Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Samuel Johnson - 1968 - Počet stránok 400
...shine, The joys I have possess'd in spite of fate are mine. Not heav'n itself upon the past has pow'r, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour. Dryden. There is certainly no greater happiness, than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously... | |
 | E. J. Kenney, W. V. Clausen - 1982 - Počet stránok 996
...shine, The joys I have possest, in spight of fate are mine, Not Heav'n it self upon the past has pow'r; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. 1 See C. Brooks in Ricks (ed.) (1968) 76. 20 LOVE ELEGY I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION The elegiac distich... | |
 | 1876 - Počet stránok 590
...He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day. Be fair, or foul, or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite...what has been, has been, and I have had my hour." CHABLIS M. Goo AN, ) JL BRADBURY, I Committee, JJ DELACY, ) At a regular meeting of Boston Division... | |
 | David Armstrong - 1989 - Počet stránok 196
...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...what has been, has been, and I have had my hour." One could compare the fountain-poem to a Japanese fan folded up so that as little as possible is seen;... | |
 | Richard Jenkyns - 1992 - Počet stránok 526
...own; He who, secure within, can say Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine. The joys I have possessed in spite...But what has been has been, and I have had my hour. This is undoubtedly superb English verse, but it is not quite Horatian, too grand (if in a somewhat... | |
 | R. Crosby Kemper (III.) - 1996 - Počet stránok 278
...At about this time he copied out for himself Dryden's lines: "Not Heaven itself over the past hath power / But what has been has been, and I have had my hour." Lord Randolph was chancellor of the Exchequer for a few months in 1886, resigning before he even produced... | |
 | Helen Bevington - 1996 - Počet stránok 232
...own: He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow 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. So did Matthew Arnold (writing about Goethe): And he was happy, if to know Causes of things, and far... | |
 | Arthur Herman - 1997 - Počet stránok 538
...any postponement of gratification. Tomorrow, 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 . . .6 But the Greco-Roman view of time also contained the conviction that events do not occur at random... | |
 | Steven N. Zwicker - 1998 - Počet stránok 362
...The joys I have possest, in spight of fate are mine. / Not Heav'n it self upon the past has pow'r; / But what has been has been, and I have had my hour" (lines 65-72).35 Celebrating the ownership of one's own life, Dryden intensifies with Pindaric amplitude... | |
 | Peter France - 2000 - Počet stránok 692
...shine, The joys I have possest, in spight of fate are mine. Not Heav'n it self upon the past has pow'r, But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour And yet there is a paradox. This version of Horace bears, in many of its parts, only a loose relation... | |
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