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 to-day : Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possess'd, in spite of Fate, are mine. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series ... - Página 160editado por - 1810Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Greek - 1859 - 568 páginas
...have lived: " that is, I have enjoyed, as they should be enjoyed, the blessings of existence : — " 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 to-day." DRYDEN. The man who has lived for beneficent purposes,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 páginas
...are from their old foundations torn ; And woods, made thin with winds, their scatter'd honors moji 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 to-day. Be fair or foul, or rain or shine, The joys I have... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 páginas
...trunks of trees come rolling down ; Sheep and their folds together drown : Both house and homestead into seas are borne ; And rocks are from their old...; And woods, made thin with winds, their scatter'd honors mourn. Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within,... | |
| Thomas Love Peacock - 1861 - 334 páginas
...est efficiet ; neque Diffinget infectumque reddet, Quod fugiens semel hora vexit. HOB. Carm. iii. 29. 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 to-day. Be storm, or calm, orTain, or shine, The joys I have... | |
| 1863 - 636 páginas
...Dryden hath it, — professedly translating Horace, but really far transcending the Latin lyrist. — " 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 to-day. Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have... | |
| Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1861 - 424 páginas
...genius of Dryden, and his peculiar mastery of the great rhythmical resources of our language : — Z 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 to-day. Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have... | |
| Horace - 1861 - 372 páginas
...of the genius of Dryden, and his peculiar mastery of the great rhythmical resources of our language. 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 to-day. Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 páginas
...And trunks of trees come rolling down; Sheep and their folds together drown: Both house and homestead into seas are borne; And rocks are from their old...torn; And woods, made thin with winds, their scatter'd honors moi <. Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call to-day his own: He who, secure within,... | |
| Wise sayings - 1864 - 394 páginas
...trunks of trees come rolling down ; Sheep and their folds together drown : Both house and homestead into seas are borne ; And rocks are from their old...made thin with winds, their scatter'd honours mourn. First Bach ef Horace, XXIX. Ode.— JOHN DRYDES. HAPPINESS. Instability of Human What's earth ? or... | |
| John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 páginas
...first professor of our art, At country wakes sung ballads from a cart. Prologue to Lee's Sophonisbo. 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 to-day. Imitation of Horace. Book i. Ode 29. Line 65. But... | |
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