 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...  Select British Classics - Page 2771803Full view - About this book
 | Juvenal - 1735 - 512 lehte
...theft, ''tit not much matter what we want bejides; Jtr me tave already enough to make us happy. LOOK round the Habitable World, how few Know their own Good ; or knowing it, purfue. HowvoidofReafonare our Hopes and Fears! What in the Conduct of our Life appears So well defign'd,... | |
 | Rob Steele - 1740 - 368 lehte
...round the habitable World, hciufrw Know their oiun Cood, or knowing it purfue ? Ho<w -void of Reafon are our Hopes and Fears ! What in the Conduct of our Life appears So ivell dejign d. fo luckily begun, But, iL'hen we have our Wi/h, lue iKifh undone ? EVEN the Men that... | |
 | John Dryden - 1760 - 476 lehte
...is not much matter what •we want bejides ; for we have already enough to make us happy. X 2 LOOK round the habitable world, how few Know their own good ; or knowing it, purfue. How void of reafon are our hopes and fears! What in the conduct of our life appears So well... | |
 | John Dryden - 1760 - 476 lehte
...tbefe, it is not much matter what we want bejides ; for we have already enough to make us happy. LOOK round the habitable world, how few Know their own good; or knowing it, purfue. How void of reafon are our hopes and fears! What in the conduft of our life appears So well... | |
 | Thomas Amory - 1766 - 572 lehte
...righteoufnefs, and the punifhment of wickednefs unto a future flate of cxiftence. SECTION SEGTION XIII. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good ; or knowing it, purfue. How void of reafon are our hopes and fears 1 What in the conduct of our life appears So well... | |
 | 1766 - 768 lehte
...Review, yo). xi. p. 501. : Section xiii opens with the following motto, from Dryden's Juvenal : ' Look rou.nd, the habitable world, how few Know their own good ; or knowing it, purfue. .How void of realbn are our hopes and fears! What in the conrluftof our life appears So well... | |
 | Thomas Amory - 1766 - 558 lehte
...righteoufnefs, and the puniflimcnt of wickednefs unto a future ftate of cxiftence. SECTION XIII. ' Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good ; or knowing it, purfue. How void of reafon are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduft of our life appears ( So well... | |
 | John Dryden - 1767 - 398 lehte
...thefe, it is not much matter iahat iut want be/ides ; for we have already enough to make us happy. LOOK round the habitable world, how few Know their own good; or knowing it, purfue. How void of reafon are our hopes and fears ! What in the condud of our life appears So well... | |
 | Thomas Amory - 1770 - 406 lehte
...Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good; or knowing it, purfue. How void of reafon are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduct of our life appears So well defign'd, fo luckily begun, But, when we have our wifh, wewifh undone ? The tenth Satire of Juvenal.... | |
 | 1776 - 296 lehte
...12, 1753. — — " Pauci dignofcere poflunt " Vera bona, atque illis multum diverfa."— Juv. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, purfue. IT is a common obfervation, that though happinefs is every man's aim, and though it is generally... | |
| |
