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. The Complete Art of Poetry: In Six Parts, I. Of the Nature, Use, Excellence ... - Page 251by Charles Gildon - 1718Full view - About this book
| John Dryden - Classical poetry - 1702 - 362 pages
...Man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to day his own : He, who, fecure within, can fay, To morrow do thy worft, for I have liv'd to day. Be fair, or foul, or rain, or fliine, The joys I have pofleft, in fpight of fate are mine. Not Heav'n it felf upon the paft has pow'r>... | |
| Edward Bysshe - English language - 1710 - 620 pages
...Let us ufe all ; for if we lofe one Day, The white one in the Crowd may flip away. Dryd. Tjr. Love. Happy the Man, and happy he alone, He who can call To-Day his own! He, who ie'cure within, can fay, To-Mprrow do thy worft, for I have liy'd To-Day; Be fair, or foul, or rain,... | |
| John Dryden - English poetry - 1760 - 488 pages
...from their old foundations torn, And woods, made thin with winds, their fcatter'd VIII. [honors mourn. Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own : He who, fecure within, can fay, To-morrow do thy worft, for I have liv'd toBe fair, or foul, or rain, or mine,... | |
| John Dryden - 1760 - 528 pages
...from their old foundations torn, And woods, made thin with winds, their fcatter'd VIII. [honors mourn. Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own : He who, fecure within, can fay, To-morrow do thy worft, for I have liv'd toBe fair, or foul, or rain, or fhine,... | |
| John Dryden - English poetry - 1767 - 388 pages
...foundations torn, And woods, made thin with winds, their fcatter'd honours monrn. VIII. Happy th« man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own : He who, fccnre within, can fay, To-morrow do thy worft, for I have Hv'd to-day Be fair, or foul, or rain, or... | |
| John Duncombe, John Hughes - English letters - 1773 - 998 pages
...every other fatisfaction of life ; which no one more ardently wifhes, than My lord, &c. JOHN HUGHES, * Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call to.day his own ; He who, fecure within, can fay, To morrow do thy worft, for J jfave liv'd to-day ! Dryden. r LETTER LXVJL Earl... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 376 pages
...from their old foundations torn, And woods, made thin with winds, their fcatter'd honours mourn. VIII. Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own : He who, fecure within, can fay, To-morrow do thy worft, for I haveliv'tl to-day; Be fair, or foul, or rain,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 366 pages
...their old foundations torn, And woods, made thin with winds, their tcattec'd ho* nours mourn. VIII. Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own : lie who, fecure within, can fay, To-morrow do thy worft, for I have liv'd to-day ; Be fair, cr foul,... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 362 pages
...their old foundations torn, And woods, made thin with winds, their fcatter'd ho. nours mourn. VIII. Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own : He who, fecure within, can fay, To-morrow do thy worft, for I have liv'd to-day j Be fair, or foul, or rain,... | |
| 1793 - 806 pages
...from their old foundations torn, And woods, made thin with winds, their ftattcr'd honours mourn. VIII. Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call...: He who, ftcure within, can fay, To-morrow do thy worn, for 1 have Inr'd to-day Be fair, or foul, or rain, or fhine, . The joys I have poffcf-M, in fpite... | |
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