 | 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps - 1854 - 350 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.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 332 pages
...shine, The joys I have possess'd, 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.' DRYDEN. There is certainly no greater happiness than to bo able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1856 - 434 pages
...The joys I have possess'd, hi 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.' " * One forenoon, at his own house, Fox was talking to me very earnestly about Dryden, when he suddenly... | |
 | 1915 - 980 pages
...England of the fame of having created this mighty Empire. ' Not Heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.' What has concerned and concerns England, concerns us too. The aim of our colonial policy is not merely... | |
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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... 
