 Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul, or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself...  An Empire of Information: Uniting Four Regions of Thought ... - Page 442by John McGovern - 1880 - 700 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Books - 1876 - 682 pages
...quotations, one of which, from Horace, we spare the reader ; the other, from Dryden, runs thus :— " Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour." The earlier part of the book has been published before ; and the remainder consists of desultory remarks... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 254 pages
...No. XI. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12. Ille potens sui Laetusque deget, cui licet in diem Dixisse, vixi. Hon. Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call...within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day. DRYDEIT. TO THE ADVENTURER. SIR, IT is the fate of all who do not live in necessary or... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 328 pages
...DECEMBER 12, 1752. *•• • ^77/£ fat fits mi L&tvsquc dcgett cut licet in dim Dixisie, vixi. HOR.. Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call...secure within can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for 1 have livtd to-day. DRYDEN. TO THE ADVENTURER. SI*, IT is the fate of all who do not live in necessary... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 490 pages
...mourn. * The poem seems to have been written during the political conflicts in the city of London. VIII. Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call...; He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst,.for I have lived to-day : Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 496 pages
...mourn. • The poem seems to have been written during the political conflicts in the city of London. Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call...; He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst^for I have lived to-day: Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 372 pages
...Qfiodcunque retro tit cjfieiet ; ncqut Diffihget, infect umque reddct, Quodjitgieni lemel bora vexrt, Be fair or foul, or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heav H itself upon the past has pow'r, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour. There is... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1810 - 308 pages
...are from their old foundations torn. And woods, made thin with winds, their scattered honours mourn. Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call...But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. Fortune, that with malicious joy Does man, her slave, oppress, Proud of her office to destroy, Is seldom... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 664 pages
...their scatterM honours mourn. Is sometimes high, and sometimes low, A quiet ebb, or a tempestuous flow, Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within, can say, [day ; To-morrow do thy worst, for I have liv'd toBe fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 664 pages
...are from their old foundations torn, And woods, made thin with winds, their scatter'd honours mourn. Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within, can say, [day ; To-morrow do thy worst, for I have liv'd toBe fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have... | |
 | United States - 1812 - 588 pages
...from their old foundations torn, > And woods, made thin with winds, their scatter'd honours mourn.} Happy the man and happy he alone, He who can call...within, can say, "Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have liv'd today; " Be fair or foul, or rain, or shine, " The joys I have possess'd in spite of fate are... | |
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