 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...  The Odes of Horace: In Four Books Translated Into English Lyric Verse - Page 346by Horace - 1858 - 475 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 620 pages
...And woods, made thin with winds, their scatter'd honours mourn. Happy the man, nnd happy he atone, He who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within, can say, [day ; To-morrow do thy worst, for I have Hv'd toBe fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 462 pages
...Irritum Quodcunque retro est efficiet, neque Diffinget, infectumque reddet, Quodfugiens semel hora vexit. Be fair or foul, or rain or shine, The joys I have possess'd in spite of fate are mine. Not heav'n itself upon the past has pow'r, JJut what has been... | |
 | 1810 - 464 pages
...Quodcunque retro est cjjicict, ncque Diffinget, infectwnque rcddet, Quod fugiens semel liora vexit. Be fair or foul, or rain or shine, The joys I have possess'd in spite of fate are mine. Not heav'n itself upon the past lias pow'r, But what has been... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1811 - 394 pages
...S>uodcunque retro ist effidet ,• neque Dijfinget, infectumque reddet, $>uodjugiens ssmel hara vexit. Be fair or foul, or rain or shine, The joys I have possess'd in spite of fate are rains. Not heav'n itself upon the past has pow*r, But what has been... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 pages
...irritum Quodcunque retro est efficiet neque Uiffinget, infectumque reddet, Quodjugieni semel hora vexit. Be fair or foul, or rain or shine, The joys I have posscss'd in spite of fate are mine. Not Heav'n itself upon the past has pow'r. But what has been has... | |
 | 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... | |
 | United States - 1812 - 524 pages
...who can call to-day his own: He who secure 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 mine. " Not heaven itself upon the past has power; •'But what has... | |
 | English literature - 1816 - 696 pages
...Diffinget infactumque reddet, Quod fugiens seniel hora vexit." " Happy the man, and happy he alone, i He who can call to-day his own. He who secure within,...Be fair or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have posscss'd in spite of fate are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power ; But what has been,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 852 pages
...country, I fend you thefe confiderations on the nature and immortality of the foul. Digby. — H.ippy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call to-day his own ; He who fecure within can fay, To-morrow do thy ivorjl, for I have liv'J to-day. Drjden. — Sir Roger gets... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 368 pages
...Quodatnque retro est efficiet ; neque Diffinget, infectumque reddet, Quodfugiens semel hora vexit. Be fair or foul, or rain or shine, The joys I have possess'd, in spite of fate are mine. Not Heav'n itself upon the past has pow'r, But what has been... | |
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