| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 538 pages
...tfliciet : neque Diflinsret, infectumque reddet, Quodfugiens seinel horn veiit. HOK. lib. isi. Od-29. 45. Be fair or foul, or rain or shine, The joys I have possess'd, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heav'n itself upon the past has pow'r, But what has been... | |
| John Dryden - 1832 - 342 pages
...winds, their scatter'd honours mourn. Happy the man, and happy he alone, fis He, who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day. Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, [mine. The joys I have possess'd, in spite of fate,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 pages
...(t*ad ffgiemiemtl liara fixii. E« fair or foul, or rain or shine, The joys I have pos*ceVd, in epite of fate are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, Bat what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. DRTDEK. There ta certainly no greater happiness... | |
| John Dryden - 1837 - 478 pages
...winds, their scatter'd 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 l have liv'd to-day. Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys l have possess'd, in spite of fate,... | |
| Richard Hildreth - Slavery - 1840 - 208 pages
...laws do not allow him to possess. When he has consumed a thing he is sure of it, and only then — Be fair or foul, or rain or shine The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine, Nor heaven itself upon the past has power, But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. The... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 334 pages
...the reach of accident or violence, nor can be lost either by our own weakness or another's malice : " Be fair or foul, or rain or shine, The joys I have possess'd, in spite of fate are mine Nor Heaven itself upon the past has power, Bat what has been,... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1841 - 790 pages
...might well lay down the reins of office and say — " To-morrow do thy worst, for I have liv'd my day; Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine — The joys I have possess'd, in spite of fate are mine; Not heaven itself, upon the past has pow'r— What has been,... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1841 - 608 pages
...lines of Dryden, in which he has improved even upon the noble original : * Be fair, or foul, or raiu, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of Fate, are nriiic: Not Jove him Mi upon the past has power, But what haa been, ka* bttn, and I have had my hour.'... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...can call to-day his own: He who, secure within, can say, Til-morrow do thy worst, for I have liv'd , possess'd, in spite of fate, arc mine. Not Ьеатеп itself upon the past has power ; But what has... | |
| Rose Ellen Temple - 1846 - 984 pages
...again, " 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...Be fair or foul, or rain or shine, The joys I have possess'd, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, But what has been,... | |
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