 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 624 pages
...JJififfil, iuJctlHmqut rrddrl, Qiujd fugicnt gtmtl kora tiiit. Be fair or foul, or raiii or (bine, The joys I have possess'd, in spite of fate are mine. Not HenviHi itself upon the past has power, But wlm has been, nas been, and I have had my hour. D1YDKN.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...shine, Tie joys I have possese'd, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself uponjhe past has power ; y Fortune, that with malicious joy Does man, her slave, oppress, Proud of her office to destroy, Is seldom... | |
 | William Peter - 1847 - 562 pages
...shine, The joys I have posseas'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, Is... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...to-day his own : day! He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day. M, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, an posscss'd, in spite of fate, are mine. Not "heaven itself upon the past has power; Bat what has been,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...call to-day his own : He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day. ears they dropt, but wip'd heaven itself upon the past has power ; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. Fortune,... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps - 1849 - 386 pages
...The joys I have poflefled, 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." ELLESMERE. You muft have the felf-fome feeling then over moft of the events in hiftory. MILVERTON.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...call to-day his own : He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have Hv'd to-day. ed bus ; mme. Not heaven itself upon the past has power ; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.... | |
 | 1887 - 678 pages
...shine, The joys I have possessed, 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. Dryden's ' Imitations of Horace,' bk. i. ode 29. Byron expresses the same sentiment in ' The Qiaour... | |
 | Joseph Beckham Cobb - 1851 - 264 pages
...The joys -I liave possessed 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. DRYDEN. The preceding number was partly intended, my dear S , to illustrate what has here been said, inasmuch... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps - 1853 - 294 pages
...Quod fugiens semel hora vexit." Or, as Dryden says, excelling the original, I think, in expression, " 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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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... 
