 | William Godwin - Human beings - 1831 - 614 pages
...Taken in this sense, 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...But what has been has been, and I have had my hour. But this way of removing the picture of human life to a certain distance from us, and considering those... | |
 | William Godwin - Human beings - 1831 - 504 pages
...Taken in this sense, Drvden-s 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...But what has been has been, and I have had my hour. But this way of removing the picture of human life to a certain distance from ns, and considering those... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 pages
...to-day. Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, [mine. The joys I have possess'd, in spite of fate, are Not heaven itself upon the past has power ; 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, 75 Is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 pages
...(t*ad ffgiemiemtl liara fixii. E« fair or foul, or rain or shine, The joys I have pos*ceVd, in epite of fate are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, Bat what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. DRTDEK. There ta certainly no greater happiness... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 pages
...tliy worst, for I have liv'd to-day. Be fair, or foul, or rain, or thine, The joys I have possess'd, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon...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... | |
 | Joel Pinney - 1838 - 256 pages
...is contained in the following infatuated exclamation of a free-liver ? " To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day : Be fair, or foul, or rain, or...what has been, has been, and I have had my hour." Hour indeed, in comparison of the man who has been "satisfied with long life." To withstand temptations... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - Slavery - 1840 - 208 pages
...then — Be fair or foul, or rain or shine The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine, Nor heaven itself upon the past has power, But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. The slaves never read either Horace or Dry den, but they feel and they reason in the same way. The... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1841 - 790 pages
...worst, for I have liv'd my day; 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 pow'r— What has been, has been— and I have had my hour." Whilst on the subject of the foreign policy... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...or foul, or rain or shine, The joys I have possess'd, in spite of fate, arc mine. Not Ьеатеп there), Fortune, that with malicious joy Does man, her slaTe, oppress, Proud of her office to destroy, Is seldom... | |
 | Rose Ellen Temple - 1846 - 984 pages
...do thy worst, for I have lived to-day. Be fair or foul, or rain or shine, The joys I have possess'd, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon...But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. JOBS DBYDEN. Having been bold enough to quote Pope at the head of the last chapter, pardon me, readers,... | |
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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... 
