 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 pàgines
...If we have these, it id not much matter what wo want besides ; for we have already enough to make ua happy. LOOK round the habitable world, how few Know...fears ! "What in the conduct of our life appears So welt design'd, so luckily begun, But, when we have our wish, we wish undone ? Whole houses, of their... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 478 pàgines
...matter what we want hesides ; for we have already enough to make us happy. LOOK round the hahitahle world, how few Know their own good ; or knowing it,...! What in the conduct of our life appears So well design'd, so luckily hegun, But, when we have our wish, we wish undone? Whole houses, of their whole... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1837 - 252 pàgines
...a future pain. Give me leave to fortify my unlearned reader another bit of wisdom from Juvenal, by Look round the habitable world, how few Know their...pursue! How void of reason are our hopes and fears t What in the conduct of our life appears Bo well designed, во luckily begun But, when we bave our... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 pàgines
...3, 1750. •/ dignoictre pottwtt Pera bona, alifue illta miittum dicrrsti, remota Errant ncbuta. m How few Know their own good ; or, knowing it, pursue ? How void of reason are our hopes and fears ? DftTDIW. THE folly of human wishes and pursuits has always been a standing subject of mirth and declamation,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 480 pàgines
...pauci dignoacere poesunt Vera dona, atque »Hie multum diversa, remota Erroris nebula Ло. Sat. II 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 1Ша the suppliant voice ? JDryd.... | |
 | Joel Pinney - 1838 - 256 pàgines
...known, e man to abandon it, as it is to persuade a f oohsh oae to make trial O f it. INDOLENCE LUXURY. " Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue !" MAN was not created weak and distempered; nor do we learn from ancient history that he began to... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pàgines
...hearts." Give e'en a fool the employment he desires, And he soon finds the talent it requires. — COOPER. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their...! 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. The architect of... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1839 - 374 pàgines
...hearts." Give e'en a fool the employment he desires, And he soon finds the talent it requires.—COOPER. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their...! What in the conduct of our life appears So well design'd, so luckily begun, But, when we have our wish, we wish undone.—DR YDEN . The architect of... | |
 | Catherine Grace F. Gore - 1839 - 896 pàgines
...years since he had been even startled into naming her otherwise than as Miss Grenfell. CHAPTER XI. How void of reason are our hopes and fears ! What, in the conduct of our life, appears So well design'd, — so luckily begun, — But, when we have our wish, we wish undone ! DRYDEH'S JUVENAL.... | |
 | Mary Ashdowne - 1839 - 328 pàgines
...better portion of society, that we shall be able to form a correct estimate of our own condition. " 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 !" Were... | |
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Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue. 
