 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 490 pages
...to-day his own ; 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 of fate, are mine; Not heaven itself upon the past has power, But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. IX.... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 496 pages
...to-day his own ; 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 of fate, are mine ; Not heaven itself upon the past has power, But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. IX.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1810 - 308 pages
...to-day his own ; 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 of fate are mine ; Not heaven itself upon the past has power, But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. Fortune,... | |
 | Mary Jane Mackenzie - 1820 - 312 pages
...butterfly ^and her friends must console themselves as they can ; and at any rate they can say — * Be fair or foul, or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.' " With a different education she would have been a most charming creature," exclaimed Mr. Maitland,... | |
 | English literature - 1822 - 880 pages
...own—- He who, secure within himself, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I Ьате Hv'd to-day. Be fair or foul, or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine t Not Jove himself upon the past hath pow'r, For what hath been, hath Ьсея, and I have had my hour."... | |
 | 1822 - 686 pages
...to-day his own, 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 of fate, are mine ; Not Heav'n itself upon the past has power, But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. '... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 478 pages
...duodcunque retro est efficiet, neque Dijfinget, infect unique reddet, Quodfugiens semel hora vexit. Be fair or foul, or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not Heav'n itself upon the past has powV, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour. DRYDEN.... | |
 | William Godwin - Human beings - 1831 - 614 pages
...Dryden's celebrated verses are but a maniac's rant : 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 of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour. But... | |
 | William Godwin - Human beings - 1831 - 504 pages
...celebrated verses are but a maniac-s rant: J 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 of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour. But... | |
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Happy the man - and happy he alone He who can call today his own, He who, secure within, can say 'Tomorrow, 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... 
