 | 1785 - 596 pages
...heav'n itfelf upon the paft has pow'r, But what has been has been, and 1 have had my hour. DtTKCNt There is certainly no greater happinefs than to be able to look back on a life ufcfully and virtuoudy employed, to trace our own progrcls in exiftence, by fuch tokens as excite neither... | |
 | 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
...fhine, The joys I have poflefs'd in fpite of fate are mine. Not heav'n itfelf upon the part has pow'r, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour....than to be able to look back on a life ufefully and virtuoufly employed, to trace our own progrefs in exiftence, by fuch tokens as excite neither fhame... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 466 pages
...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
...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1799 - 408 pages
...virtue; and, laftly, that it is moft conducive to our happinefs. There is certainly no greater felicity, than to be able to look back on a life ufefully and virtuoufly employed ; to trace our own progrefs in exiftcnce, by fuch tokens as excite neither fliame... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 460 pages
...fpite of fate are mine t Not heav'n itfelf upon the paft has pow'r, I" ut what has been has been, and 1 have had my hour. DRYDEN. There is certainly no greater happinefs than to bo able to look back on a life ufefully and virtuoufly employed, to trace our own progrefs in exiftence,... | |
 | Berquin (M., Arnaud) - 1805 - 294 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
