 | John Dryden - 1767 - 396 pàgines
...body and mind. And if we have thefe, it is not much matter what we want bejldes ; for we have alnady enough to make us happy. LOOK round the habitable world, how few Know their own good; or knowing it, porfue. How void of reafon are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduit of our life appears So well... | |
 | Thomas Amory - 1770 - 406 pàgines
...righteoufnefs, and the punifhment of wickednefs unto a future ftate of exiftence. SECTION SECTION XIII. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their...void of reafon are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduct of our life appears So well defign'd, fo luckily begun, But, when we have our wifh, wewifh... | |
 | 1776 - 296 pàgines
...July 12, 1753. — — " Pauci dignofcere poflunt " Vera bona, atque illis multum diverfa."— Juv. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, purfue. IT is a common obfervation, that though happinefs is every man's aim, and though it is generally purfued... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - 1776 - 654 pàgines
...timenttti Aut cupimus ? Quid tarn dextro pede coticipis, ut te Conatus non pceniteat, voiique peratli * ? How void of reafon are our hopes and fears ! What in the progrefs of our life appears So well defign'd, fo dext'roufly begun, But, when we have our wifh, we... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 390 pàgines
...is but health of body and mind. And if we have thefe, it is not much matter what we want belides ; for we have already enough to make us happy. LOOK...and fears ! What in the conduft of our life appears Sr So well defign'd, fo luckily begun, But, when we have our wifh, we wifh undone ? Whole houfes, of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 384 pàgines
...It is but health of body and mind. And if we have thefe, it is not much matter what we want betides; for we have already enough to make us happy. LOOK...void of reafon are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduit of our life appear* So well def:gn'd, fo luckily begun, But, when we have our wifh, we wifh... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 398 pàgines
...It is but health of body and mind. And if we have thefe, it is not much matter what we want hef:des; for we have already enough to make us happy. LOOK...world, how few Know their own good ; or, knowing it, purlue. How void of reafon are' our hopes and fears ! What in the conduft of our life- appear* So So... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 1130 pàgines
...have already enough to make us happy. LOOK round the habitable world, how few Know thtir own good j or, knowing it, purfue. How void of reafon are our hopes and fears !• What in the conduct of aur life appear* So So well defign'd, fo luckily begun, But, when we have our wift, we wi(h... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1780 - 288 pàgines
...beginning of the fatyr [the icthj the poet obferves ; Look round the habitable world, how few K now their own good, or knowing it, purfue ! How void of...appears So well defign'd, fo luckily begun, But, when we've got our wifh, we wifh undone ! Whole houTes of their whole defires pofleft, Are often ruin'd... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 466 pàgines
...3, 1750. Pauci Jignofcere pejjunt Veralona, at qut illit multum diverfa, remit a JUT Erroris nebula. ———How few Know their own good ; or, knowing...purfue ? How void of reafon are our hopes and fears ? DRYDEN. THE folly of human wifhes and purfuits has always been a flanding fubject of mirth and declamation,... | |
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Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue. 
