 | Richard Hildreth - 1840 - 208 pages
...shine The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine, Nor heaven itself upon the past has power, But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. The slaves never read either Horace or Dry den, but they feel and they reason in the same way. The... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...joys I have possess'd, in spite of fate, arc mine. Not Ьеатеп itself upon the past has power ; , Fortune, that with malicious joy Does man, her slaTe, oppress, Proud of her office to destroy, Is seldom... | |
 | Rose Ellen Temple - 1846 - 984 pages
...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. Having been bold enough to quote Pope at the head of the last chapter, pardon me, readers,... | |
 | 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
...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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Pindar - 1852 - 516 pages
...Sire, &c. Horace has imitated, not excelled this noble Not Jove himself upon the past has power, For what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. Dryden, b. iii. ode 29. But who can past recal, or done undo ? Not God omnipotent. Milt. Par. Z. b. ix. 926.... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps - 1853 - 294 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." ELLESMERE. You must have the self-same feeling then over most of the events in history. MILVERTON.... | |
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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... 
