 | John Dryden - 1837 - Страниц: 482
...have these, it id not much matter what wo want besides ; for we have already enough to make ua happy. LOOK round the habitable world, how few Know their own good ; or knowing it, pursue How void of reason are our hopes and fears ! "What in the conduct of our life appears So welt... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1837 - Страниц: 400
...YEARS* HAPPINESS, THIS TRACT IS INSCRIRED RY HER EVER GRATEFUL BASIL MONT HI HAPPINESS. Look ronnd the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursuej How void of reason are our hopes and fears! What in the conduct of our life appears So well... | |
 | Joel Pinney - 1838 - Страниц: 256
...known, e man to abandon it, as it is to persuade a f oohsh oae to make trial O f it. INDOLENCE LUXURY. " Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue !" MAN was not created weak and distempered; nor do we learn from ancient history that he began... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - Страниц: 404
...hearts." Give e'en a fool the employment he desires, And he soon finds the talent it requires. — COOPER. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue ; How void of reason are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduct of our life appears So well... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - Страниц: 352
...Glorious John Dryden, and compare his directness with the pompous pleonasms of the author of the Rambler. Look round the habitable world; how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. Hazlitt, I think, mentions that it was Wordsworth who first drew attention to these parallel... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - Страниц: 674
...been avoided. But such mistakes are not new ; history is full of the errors of states and princes. "Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue ! " Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - Страниц: 714
...Glorious John Dryden, and compare his directness with the pompous pleonasms of the author of the Rambler. Look round the habitable world; how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. Hazlitt, I think, mentions that it was Wordsworth who first drew attention to these parallel... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - Страниц: 354
...Glorious John Dryden, and compare his directness with the pompous pleonasms of the author of the Rambler. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. * There are, however, many very fine monosyllabic lines in English Poetry. Hazlitt, I think,... | |
 | John Davis - 1841 - Страниц: 364
...passionate exclamation of the great Roman satirist. I will give it you in the version of glorious John : " Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue ; How void of reason are our hopes and fears, What in the compass of our life appears So well... | |
 | Thomas Bardel Brindley - 1843 - Страниц: 160
...after this unhappy youth died, in all the awful ravings of madness and despair. No. 10. VALENTINE. " Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue ? How rarely reason guides the stubborn choice ?" JUvENAL. " No more was seen the human form... | |
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Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue. 
