 | Greek - 1859 - 568 pages
...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, and has laid up a store of good actions, has... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 480 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 I have liv'd to-day. Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possess'd, in spite of fate, are... | |
 | 1867 - 878 pages
...gift, how true it is that we have here a joy that nothing can take away : — " Come foul, or fair, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite...has power, But what has been has been, and I have lived my hour." A view so opposite to that of the song before us could hardly have been embodied without... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 778 pages
...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 itself upon the past has power; But whiit lias buen, has been, and I have had my hour. Fortune, that with malicious joy Does man, her slave,... | |
 | Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1861 - 424 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1861 - 334 pages
...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 possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself... | |
 | Society of Antiquaries of Scotland - Archaeology - 1862 - 654 pages
...that is clear and prominent. In the words of the poet, if we may say it without irreverence, — " Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, But what has been, has been." The undoubted facts in human history which the past presents to us, are the natural foundation of all... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...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, 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. Fortune, that with malicious joy Does man, her slave, oppress,... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1863 - 608 pages
...— " Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who ean call to-day his own; He who, secure within, ean say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day. Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys 1 have possessed, in spite of fate, arc mine : Nut Heaven itself upon the past has power; But what... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...with winds, their scatter'd honors mo» Happy the man, and hnppy 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 powei ; dut what has been,... | |
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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. 
