 | Edmund Burke - 1876 - 682 pages
...spare the reader ; the other, from Dryden, runs thus :— " Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour." The earlier part of the book has been published before ; and the remainder consists of desultory remarks... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 466 pages
...rain or ftiine, The joys I have poflefs'd in fpite of fate are mine. Not hsav'n itfelf upon the paft has pow'r, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour. DRYDEW. There is certainly no greater happinefs than to be able to look back on a life ufefully and... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 362 pages
...fhine, The joys I have poflefs'd, in fpite of fate are mine, Not Heaven itfelf upon the paft has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. Fortune, IX. Fortune, that, with malicious joy, Does man her flave opprefs, Proud of her office to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 626 pages
...rain or fliine, The joys I have poflefs'd in fpite of fate are mine. Not heav'n itfelf upon the paft has pow'r, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour. There is certainly no greater happinefs than to be able to look back on a life ufefully and virtuoufly... | |
 | John Williams - 1793 - 128 pages
...The joys I have poflefs'd, in fpite of Fate, are mine : Not Heaven itfelf upon the part has power, But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. Good Humor had not a more firm adherent in being; his fuavity, like beauty, bore the moft powerful... | |
 | 1803 - 322 pages
...irritum Quodcuriquere'ro est etiiciet, neque. Diilnget, infectumque reddet,. Quod fugies semel bora vexit.. Be fair or foul, or rain or shine, The joys...of fate are mine. Not heav'n itself upon the past haspow'r, But what has been, has betn, and I have had my hour.. There is certamly nd greater happiness... | |
 | Berquin (M., Arnaud) - 1805 - 294 pages
...rain, qr fliine, " '°ys l have Poffefs'd, in fpite of fate are mine, Not Heav'n itfelf upon the paft has pow'r ; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. Fortune, that, with malicious joy, Does man her (lave opprefs, Proud of her office to deftroy, Is feldom... | |
 | 1806 - 348 pages
...tamen irritum Quodcunquc retro est efficiet; nequt D/Jfinget, infectumqnt reddet, Quodfugicni lemelhwa vexit. Be fair or foul, or rain or shine, The joys...But what has been has been, and I have had my hour. DRYOEN. There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 496 pages
...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 itself upon the past has power, But what has been,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 376 pages
...Qpodcunque retro esf tjficiet; neque Diffinget, infeetumque rsddet ^ Quodfugiesu semel -bora •vcxit• 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 has been, and I have had my hour. Be fair... | |
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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... 
