 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 378by Horace - 1858 - 475 pagesFull view - About this book
 | British essayists - 1823 - 686 pages
...1752. — Vie potens sui Lcetusque deget, cui licet in diem Dixisse, Vui. — HoR. CAR. iii. 29. -i-1. Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call...say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day. DRYDEN. " To THE ADVENTURER. " SIR, " IT is the fate of all who do not live in necessary or accidental... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 650 pages
...TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1752. Ille potens sui Laetusque deget, cui licet in diem Dixisse, vixi. — Hon. Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call to-day his own ; Hei who secure within can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day. — DRYDEN. 'To THE... | |
 | English essays - 1823 - 324 pages
...deget, cui licet in diem Dixisae, vixi. Hon. Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can cull to day his own ; He who secure within can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for 1 have lived to-day. DRYDKN. " TO THE ADVENTURER. "SIR, " IT is the fate of all who do not live in... | |
 | English essays - 1823 - 304 pages
...cui licet in diem Vixisse, i'ij-'f, Hon. Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can cull to day his own ; He who secure within can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for 1 have lived to-day. DRTDEN. "TO THE ADVENTURER. "SIR, " IT is the fate of all who do not live in necessary... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 638 pages
...Quodcunque retro cst, efficict ; neque Diffinget, infectumque reddet, Quod fugiens seiuel bora 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,... | |
 | Barclay Mounteney - 1824 - 580 pages
...the name of any man, and transmute that which is, into that which had long ceased to exist ? — " Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possess'd at least are mine ; Not Heav'n itself upon the past has pow'r ; What has been has been, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 538 pages
...tfliciet : neque Diflinsret, infectumque reddet, Quodfugiens seinel horn veiit. HOK. lib. isi. Od-29. 45. 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... | |
 | William Godwin - Human beings - 1831 - 504 pages
...regard them as of no account. 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 :...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 this... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 pages
...woods, made thin with winds, their scatter'd honours mourn. Happy the man, and happy he alone, fis He, who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day. Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, [mine. The joys I have possess'd, in spite of fate,... | |
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