 | Mary Ashdowne - 1839 - 328 pągines
...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... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pągines
...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 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... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 714 pągines
...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pągines
...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... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 pągines
...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,... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 352 pągines
...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... | |
 | John Davis - 1841 - 364 pągines
...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 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pągines
...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 candl pursue 1 How rarely reason guides the stubborn choice, Prompts the fond wish, or lilts tbc suppliant... | |
 | Thomas Bardel Brindley - 1843 - 160 pągines
...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... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 pągines
...thunder the reply. Begone ! forever leave this happy sphere : For perjur'd lovers have no mansions here. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue. Happiness — does not consist so much in outward circumstances and personal gratifications,... | |
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Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue. 
