 | 1826 - 434 pagina’s
...pain. Give me leave to fortify my unlearned reader with another bit of wisdom from Juvenal, by Dryden : 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 ' * Prior'i Poems, vol. i. The... | |
 | George Crabb - 1826 - 768 pagina’s
...want of prudence and discernment not to pursue some plan on every occasion which requires method ; Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. DRYDEK. Will ye not now the pair of sages praise, Who the same end pursu'd by several ways ? DBYDEN.... | |
 | 1828 - 454 pagina’s
...scenes of crowded life ; Then say how hope and fear, &c. Hear how Dryden dashes into this at once : — Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. He beats even the closeness of the Latin ; and never dreams of such a useless first line as that in... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pagina’s
...abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there, while their own runs to ruin.— Pope. MCXLV. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their...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! Drydcn's Juvenal. MCXLVL A... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pagina’s
...always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there, while their own runs to ruin.^J~ MCXLV. 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 f Dryden's Juvenal. MCXLVI.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 pagina’s
...power, propitious still to me, Conduct my steps to find the fatal tree, In this deep forest. Dryden'i How void of reason are our hopes and fears! What in...our life appears So well designed, so luckily begun, Bat when we have our wish, we wish undone ? Shame of change, and fear of future ill : And zeal, the... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 442 pagina’s
...impossible to gain an exact habitude, without an infinite number of acu and perpetual practice. Id. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue. Id. No civil broils have since his death arose, But faction uow by habit does obey ; And wars have... | |
 | John Dryden - 1833 - 326 pagina’s
...have these, it is not much matter what we want besides ; for we have already enough to make us happy. LOOK round the habitable world, how few Know their...! What in the conduct of our life appears So well design'd, so luckily begun, 5 But, when we have our wish, we wish undone ? Whole houses, of their whole... | |
 | 1836 - 1118 pagina’s
...Vera bona. atque illis multurn divcria, remota Erroria nebula Jr?. Sat. x. I. Look round the nabitable world, how few Know their own good. or. knowing It, pursue ? How rarely reanon guidée the «ubborn choir«, „••••" Prompt! the fumi wish, or lift» II..-... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1837 - 400 pagina’s
...FOR THIRTY YEARS' HAPPINESS, THIS TRACT IS INSCRIBED BY HER EVER GRATEFUL BASIL MONTAGU. HAPPINESS. 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. So sung the poet, and so said... | |
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Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue. 
