 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 476 pages
...Quodcunque retro est efflciet ; neque Diffinget, infectumque reddet, Quodfugiens semel hora vexit. 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. DRTDEN.... | |
 | 1823 - 428 pages
...45. 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. DBYDEN. There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 478 pages
...duodcunque retro est efficiet, neque Dijfinget, infect unique reddet, Quodfugiens semel hora vexit. Be fair or foul, or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not Heav'n itself upon the past has powV, But what has been has... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 748 pages
...shine. The joys I have pussess'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. DRYDEV. There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and... | |
 | Barclay Mounteney - 1824 - 580 pages
...the name of any man, and transmute that which is, into that which had long ceased to exist ? — " Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possess'd at least are mine ; Not Heav'n itself upon the past has pow'r ; What has been has been, and I've had... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 538 pages
...tfliciet : neque Diflinsret, infectumque reddet, Quodfugiens seinel horn veiit. HOK. lib. isi. Od-29. 45. Be fair or foul, or rain or shine, The joys I have...pow'r, But what has been has been, and I have had my honr. DtvBE«. There is certainly no greater happiness than to be ahle to look back on a life usefully... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 530 pages
...ejficiet : neque Diffinget, infectumque reddet, Quodfugiens seme I hora vexit. Hon. lib. iii. Od. 29. 45. Be fair or foul, or rain or shine, The joys I have...fate, are mine. Not heav'n itself upon the past has pow'ria But what has been has been, and I have had my hour. DHYDEN. There is certainly no greater happiness... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 530 pages
...efficiet ; neque Diffinget, infectumque redJet, Quod fugieus semel hora vciit. Hon. lib. iii. Ode 29. 43. Be fair or foul, or rain or shine, The joys I have possess'd in spite of fate are mine. Not Hcav'n itself upon the past has pow'r, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour. DRYDEN.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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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... 
