 | John Dryden - 1859 - 480 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...within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day. Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possess'd, in spite of fate, are... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 766 pages
...are from their old foundations torn ; And woods, made thin with winds, their scatter'd honors mourn. Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call...Be fair or foul, or rain or shine, The joys I have possess'd, in spite of fate, are mine. Fortune, that with malicious joy Does man, her slave, oppress,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...CK CHESTERTON (1 874-1936), Brilish auihor. Л Miscellany of Men, "The Conlenied Man" 1 1 91 2]. 5 JOHN DRYDEN (1631-1 700), English poet, dramaiisl, critic. Imitation of Horace, bk. 3, ode 29 (1685).... | |
 | Donald A. Low - Literary Criticism - 1974 - 474 pages
...potctis sui Laetusque deget, cui licet in diem Dixisse vixi.1 Or, in the spirited version of Dryden, Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call...within, can say Tomorrow do thy worst, — for I have liv'd to-day. Sentiments akin to that which I have described, harmonizing so happily with the mixture... | |
 | Helen Bevington - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 238 pages
...laughter over tears, advocating "Short views, for God's sake, short views." Horace defined a happy man: Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call...joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. So did Matthew Arnold (writing about Goethe): And he was happy, if to know Causes of things, and far... | |
 | David Ogilvy - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 218 pages
...have spared you such revelations. 169 Horace wrote my epitaph, and Dryden translated it into English: Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call...say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day. 170 FAVORITE WORDS I am fascinated by this list of words. abcedary akimbo chiaroscuro diapason egregious... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...world! ROBERT BROWNING, (1812-1889) British poet. Pippa Passes, pt. 1, "Morning" (1841). Pippa's song. 3 Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call...say, Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today. JOHN DRYDEN, (1631-1700) British poet, dramatist, critic. "Imitation of Horace," bk. 3, Ode 29 (1685).... | |
 | Arthur Herman - History - 1997 - 538 pages
...diem. Life was too short, and happiness too fleeting, to permit any postponement of gratification. Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today; Be...The joys I have possessed in spite of Fate are mine . . .6 But the Greco-Roman view of time also contained the conviction that events do not occur at random... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky. 3070 (translation of Horace: Odes) Earfy Sunday Mor 3071 (translatlon of Juvenal: Satires) Look round the habitable world! how few Know their own good;... | |
 | Steven N. Zwicker - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 362 pages
...supreme selfmastery of the retired person: "Happy the Man, and happy he alone, / He, who can call to day his own: / He, who secure within, can say / Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have liv'd to day. / Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, / The joys I have possest, in spight of fate are... | |
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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 to-day. 
