 | English poets - 1790 - 388 pàgines
...thefe, it is not much matter what we want befides; for we have already enough to make us happy. 3. OOK round the habitable world, how few. Know their own...fears! What in the conduft of our life appears So So well defign'd, fo luckily begun, But, when we have our wifh, we wifh undone ? Whole houfes, of their... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 626 pàgines
...1750. Fauci digncfcere fojjunt Vtra iona, atque illis mull um diverfa, remold. Erroris nebula* Juv, • How few Know their own good ; or, knowing it, purfue ? How void of reafon are our hopes and fears ? DR YDE H. TH E folly of human wifhes and purfuits has always been a flanding fubject of mirth and... | |
 | 1795 - 768 pàgines
...DRTDEN. Look round the habitable world, how fewr Know their own good, or knowing it, purfue. How VI , • How void of reafon are our hopes and fears ! . : , What in the conduit of our life appears, So well defign'd, fo luckily begun, ... . ,; But, when we have our wiih,... | |
 | 1797 - 522 pàgines
...Give me leave to fortify my unlearned reader with another bit of wifdom from Juvenal, by Dryden : ' 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, we wifh... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 460 pàgines
...3, 1750. Panel ifignoftere ftfunf fera faa, *tyte illis multum diverf*, remeta Enwis nebula. \\.\\ How few Know their own good ; or, knowing it, purfue ? How void of reafon are our hopes and fears ? DRYDEH. HE folly of human wifhes and purfuits has always been a flanding fubject of mirth and declamation,... | |
 | 1801 - 326 pàgines
...« Pimci dignofcere pa/fant fer.i buna, atque illis mulnim di-verfa, remotA £rroris ntbula. Jirv. How few Know their own good ; or, knowing it, purfue ? How void of reafon are our hopes and fears? DRYDEN. *T HE folly of human wifhes and purfuits has •*• always been a ftanding fubject of mirth... | |
 | 1803 - 402 pàgines
...Gangem, puuci dignoscere possunt Vera bona, atque illis multum diversa, remota Erroris nebuii Juv. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. DRYDEN. IN my last Saturday's paper I laid down some thoughts upon devotion in general, and... | |
 | 1803 - 440 pàgines
...Give me leave to fortify my unlearned reader with mother bit of wisdom from Juvenal, by Dry den. Loek round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue ! How void of reason are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduct of. our life appears So well... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 658 pàgines
...ii fiat much natter u-íj¿ iL'e ti'tint IfßJet ; f<jr iLcbavc alrtuiiy cnovgb to mal¿ us kjpp-j. LOOK round the habitable world, how few Know their, own good ; or, knowing it, рогfue. Hojv void of reafon are our hopes and fear» ! / What in the conduit of our life appears... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 346 pàgines
...is but health of body and mind. -Ar.J if we have these, it is not much matter what we want besiucfor we have already enough to make us happy. LOOK round...world, how few Know their own good ; or, knowing it, pursue. How void of reason are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduct of our life appears . So well... | |
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Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue. 
