 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 334 pàgines
...morning calls again to toil, begin anew thy journey and thy life." VANITY THE PASSION OF LITTLE MINDS. " How few Know their own good; or, knowing it, pursue ? How void of reason are our hopes and fears?" Juv.—DRYDEM'S Tram. Some of these instructers of mankind have not contented themselves with checking... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 714 pàgines
...Glorious John Dryden, and compare his directness with the pompous pleonasms of the author of the Rambler. Look round the habitable world; how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. Hazlitt, I think, mentions that it was Wordsworth who first drew attention to these parallel passages.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pàgines
...been avoided. But such mistakes are not new ; history is full of the errors of states and princes. . "Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!" Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 352 pàgines
...Glorious John Dryden, and compare his directness with the pompous pleonasms of the author of the Rambler. Look round the habitable world; how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. Hazlitt, I think, mentions that it was Wordsworth who first drew attention to these parallel passages.... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 pàgines
...Glorious John Dryden, and compare his directness with the pompous pleonasms of the author of the Rambler. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. * There are, however, many very fine monosyllabic lines in English Poetry. Hazlitt, I think, mentions... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 624 pàgines
...NOVEMBER 3, 1750. -Panci Y era linón. Hltfue ülit multum tíirtrta, remota Errurif »tbitla. Jl'V ries, and long hesitation генюп are our hopes tmd fears? UKTDLlt. THE folly of human wishes and pursuits has always been... | |
 | John Davis - 1841 - 364 pàgines
...passionate exclamation of the great Roman satirist. I will give it you in the version of glorious John : " Look round the habitable world, how few Know their...void of reason are our hopes and fears, What in the compass of our life appears So well designed, so happily begun, But, when we hare our wish, we wish... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pàgines
...pauci diffnoscere poasunt Vera bona, atque illis multum di versa, remola Erroria nebula Jm. Bat. x. L ere as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me: When his candle shine 1 How rarely reason guides the stubborn choice, Prompts the fond wish, or lilts tbc suppliant voice... | |
 | Thomas Bardel Brindley - 1843 - 160 pàgines
...after this unhappy youth died, in all the awful ravings of madness and despair. No. 10. VALENTINE. " Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue ? How rarely reason guides the stubborn choice ?" JUVENAL. " No more was seen the human form divine." HOMER.... | |
 | 1844 - 276 pàgines
...will give it you ih the version of glorious John : '• Look roiind the habitable world, how fewKnow their own good, or knowing it pursue-; \ • How void of reason are our hopes and fears, What in the compass of our life appears So well designed, so happily begun, • But, when we have our wish, we... | |
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Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue. 
