 | Samuel Johnson - Great Britain - 1774 - 44 pages
...the Strand". MDCCLXXIV. [Price r • THE PATRIOT. • ** . 1 • ^O improve the golden mo•*• ment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within...our reach, is the great art of life. Many wants are fuffered, which might once have been fupplied; and much rime is loft in regretting the time which had... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Maxims - 1782 - 482 pages
...• . '-• •' i Idler, vol. :. p. a8o. OPPORTUNITY. TO improve the golden moment of ppportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life. Many wants are fuffered which might have once been fupplied, and much time is loft in regretting the time which had... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 550 pages
...freeLicence they mean, when they cry liberty, For who loves that muft firft be wife and good. MlLTOM. TO improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch...our reach, is the great art of life. Many wants are fuffered, which might once have been fupplied : and much time is loft in regretting the time which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...them free. Licence they mean, when they cry liberty, For who loves that muft firft be wife and good. TO improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch...within our reach, is the great art of life. Many wants arc fuffered> which might once have been fupplied: and much time is loft in regretting the time which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 432 pages
...; Licence they mean, when they cry liberty, For who loves that muft firft be wife and good. MlLTOK. TO improve the golden moment of opportunity, and Catch...our reach, is the great art of life. Many wants are fuffered, .which might once have been fupplied ; and much time is loft in regretting the time which... | |
 | Noah Webster - Readers - 1802 - 278 pages
...and very little, if it is not envied. To improve the Golden moment of opportunity, and catch the gooJ that is within our reach, is the great art of life. Many wants are fuffered which might have once been fupplied, ard much trae is left in regretting the time •which... | |
 | Noah Webster - Elocution - 1804 - 232 pages
...the generality of the people is nothing, if it is not known ; and very little, if it is not envied. To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch...our reach, is the great art of life. Many wants are fuffered which might have once been fupplied, and much time is loft in regretting the time which has... | |
 | Noah Webster - Elocution - 1804 - 254 pages
...generality of the people is nothing if it is not known, and very little if it is not envied.' /• To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great an of life. Many wants-are suffered which might have once been si-pplied, and much time is lost in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...presumed to have been infused by nature or dictated by reasoo. Idler, vol. i, p. 290. \ v \ \ OPPORTUNITY. To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our read), is the great art of life. Many wants are suffered which might have once been supplied, and much... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 336 pages
...Licence they mean, when they cry liberty, For who loves that must first be wise and gond. MILTON. IO improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch...supplied ; and much time is lost in regretting the timfe which had been lost before. At the end of every seven years comes the Saturnalian season, when... | |
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TO improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life. 
