 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 430 pages
...licet in diem D'IXISH; vixi.. HOR. 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. TO THE ADVENTURER. II*, IT is the fate of all who do not live in necessary or accidental obscurity,... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1810 - 308 pages
...their scattered honours mourn. 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 possessed, in spite of fate are mine ; Not heaven... | |
 | English literature - 1816 - 696 pages
...fugiens seniel hora vexit." " Happy the man, and happy he alone, i 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 posscss'd in spite of fate are mine. Not Heaven... | |
 | Scotland - 1821 - 618 pages
...the following translation : — " 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 : Not... | |
 | 1822 - 686 pages
...to imitation of the same model. ' 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 possessed, in spite of fate, are mine ; Not Heav'n... | |
 | Thomas Durant - Death - 1822 - 256 pages
...children for a much longer time. " 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. We deemed it imperiously necessary to form, while he was yet in his infancy, a plan... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 650 pages
...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 ADVENTURER. • SIR, ' IT is the fate of all who do not live in necessary or accidental... | |
 | Rose Ellen Temple - 1846 - 984 pages
...The sinner prays !" CHAPTER XVI. 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. Not Heaven... | |
 | William Taylor - Great Britain - 1847 - 348 pages
...who says, and says wisely, " Happy the man and happy he alone; •He who can catl to-day his own ; He who secure within can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day." The voyage to India crowding as it often does, into a brief space of time, incidents enough to fill... | |
 | William Peter - English poetry - 1847 - 562 pages
...their scatter'd honours mourn. Hnppy 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 rnin or shine, The joys I have posseas'd, in spite of fate, are Not Heaven itself... | |
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Happy the man - and happy he alone He who can call today his own, He who, secure within, can say 'Tomorrow, 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... 
