 | Reginald V. Johnson - 2005 - 92 pages
...places with you! John Dryden said it best: "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." "True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise, it arises, in the first place,... | |
 | J. B. Leishman - Drama - 2005 - 264 pages
...Dryden magnificently paraphrased it, 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 possesst, in spight of fate, are... | |
 | William Godwin - 2006 - 514 pages
...regard them as of no account. Taken in this sense, Dryden's celebrated verses are but a maniac's rant: tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, 140 The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power,... | |
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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. 
