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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... "
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 260
by Samuel Johnson - 1806
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Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with ...

William Godwin - 1831 - 614 pages
...Dryden's celebrated verses are but a maniac's rant : 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...
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Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with ...

William Godwin - 1831 - 504 pages
...Drvden-s celebrated verses are but a maniac-s rant: J 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...
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The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 3

John Dryden - 1832 - 342 pages
...[mine. The joys I have possess'd, in spite of fate, are Not heaven itself upon the past has power ; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. Fortune, that with malicious joy Does man her slave oppress, Proud of her office to destroy, 75 Is...
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The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life, Volume 1

John Dryden - 1837 - 482 pages
...within, can say, To-morrow do tliy worst, for I have liv'd to-day. Be fair, or foul, or rain, or thine, The joys I have possess'd, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power ; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. Fortune,...
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The alternative: disease and premature death, or health and long life

Joel Pinney - 1838 - 256 pages
...following infatuated exclamation of a free-liver ? " 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,...
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The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson...

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, has been, and 1 have had my hour." DXYDEN....
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Despotism in America: Or, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Results of the ...

Richard Hildreth - 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,...
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Hansard's Parliamentary Debates

Great Britain. Parliament - 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, has been— and I have had my hour." Whilst...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...call to-day his own: He who, secure within, can say, Til-morrow do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day. sp arc mine. Not Ьеатеп itself upon the past has power ; But what has been, has been, and I have...
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The Idler Reformed

Rose Ellen Temple - 1846 - 984 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 possess'd, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. JOBS DBYDEN....
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