 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 300 pàgines
...pauci dignoscere possunt Vera bona, atque i/lis multum diversa, remold Erroris nthuld Jvv. Sat. x. 1. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue ? How rarely reason guides the stubborn choice, Prompts the fond wish, or lifts the suppliant voice ? DRYD.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 394 pàgines
...1750. -Paun dignoscere possunt Vera dona, atque iltis multum iliversa, rtmotii Error is nebula. Juv. -How few Know their own good ; or, knowing it, pursue ? How void of reason are our hopes and fears > DRYEE>'. JL HE folly of human wishes and pursuits has always been a standing subject of mirth and... | |
 | Rev. John Thornton - 1811 - 106 pàgines
...strong reins, because it is har'd to be ruled, ea»y to be drawn aside, and apt to be deceived. 303. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue. Dryden. 304. If you do not give to God your heart, he will accept nothing at your hands. 305. The pride... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1811 - 468 pàgines
...Conatus non poeniteat, votiqne peracti ? Evertere domos total, optantibus ipsi», Bi facile s. JUTKNAU Look round the habitable world : how few Know their own good ; or, knowing it, pursue t How void of reason are our hopes and fears t What in the conduct of our life appears So well design'd,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 626 pàgines
...thefe, it is not much matter what we want be/ides ; for we have already enough to make us happy. JLjQOK round the habitable world, how few Know their own good; or knowing it, purfue. Ver. 1. Look round] There is not perhaps in our language a poem of the moral and didactic fpecies,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 628 pàgines
...thefe, it is not much mat* ter what we want be/ides ; for we have already enough to make us happy. JX)OK round the habitable world, how few Know their own good ; or knowing it, purfue. How void of reafon are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduct of our life appears So well... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - 346 pàgines
...1750. Fauci dignoscere possunt Vera bona, atyue illis muttum diversa, remota JErrorii nebula. jvv. -How few Know their own good ; or, knowing it, pursue ! How void o£ reason are our hopes and fears ? DRYDEN. THE folly of human wishes and pursuits has always been... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - 1811 - 562 pàgines
...timemus Aut cutimus ? Quid tarn dexlro pede amcipis, ut te Conutus non poeniteat, votlque peracli P* f How void of reason are our hopes and fears ! What in the progress of our life appears So well design' d, so dext'rously begun, But, when we have «ur wish,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 352 pàgines
...dignoscere possunt Vera bona, atque illis multum diversa, remot4 Erroris nebula. Juv. How few Know thcir own good; or, knowing; it, pursue! How void of reason are our hopes and fears! Dnldcn. THE folly of human wishes and pursuits has always been a stasding subject of mirth and declamation;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 524 pàgines
...November 3, Pauci dignoscere possunt Vera bona, atque illis nm'.tum diversa, remold Erroris nebula. Juv. How few Know their own good ; or, knowing it, pursue ! How void of reason are our hopes and fears ! DRYDEK: has "* HE folly of human wishes and pursuits always been a standing subject of mirth and... | |
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Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue. 
