 | 1714 - 380 sidor
...fortifie my unlearned Reader with another Bit of Wifdom from Jtvvmal by Dryden, Look round the habttable World, how few Know their own Good, or knowing it,...purfue. How Void of Reafon are our Hopes and fears I What in the Centtufi of our Life af pears So welt Jefytt'ti, fo luckily begun, Sut, whm we have our... | |
 | Juvenal - 1735 - 512 sidor
...Health of Body and Mmd _ -And if we have theft, ''tit not much matter what we want bejides; Jtr me tave already enough to make us happy. LOOK round the Habitable...how few Know their own Good ; or knowing it, purfue. HowvoidofReafonare our Hopes and Fears! What in the Conduct of our Life appears So well defign'd, fo... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1763 - 292 sidor
...3. 1750. Paud dignofcere po/ypt Vera buna, atque iUis multum cti'uerfa, remota Erroris nebula, JlTV. How few Know their own good ; or, knowing it, purfue? How void of reafon we our hopes and fears ? DRYDEN. r • ^HE folly of human wifhes and purfuits has alJ. ways been a... | |
 | Thomas Amory - 1766 - 572 sidor
...righteoufnefs, and the punifhment of wickednefs unto a future flate of cxiftence. SECTION SEGTION XIII. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their...purfue. How void of reafon are our hopes and fears 1 What in the conduct of our life appears So well defign'd, fo luckily begun, But, when we have our... | |
 | 1766 - 768 sidor
...fee Review, yo). xi. p. 501. : Section xiii opens with the following motto, from Dryden's Juvenal : ' Look rou.nd, the habitable world, how few Know their own good ; or knowing it, purfue. .How void of realbn are our hopes and fears! What in the conrluftof our life appears So well delign'd, fo luckily... | |
 | John Dryden - 1767 - 396 sidor
...body and mind. And if we have thefe, it is not much matter what we want bejldes ; for we have alnady enough to make us happy. LOOK round the habitable world, how few Know their own good; or knowing it, porfue. How void of reafon are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduit of our life appears So well... | |
 | 1776 - 296 sidor
...July 12, 1753. — — " Pauci dignofcere poflunt " Vera bona, atque illis multum diverfa."— Juv. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, purfue. IT is a common obfervation, that though happinefs is every man's aim, and though it is generally purfued... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 466 sidor
...3, 1750. Pauci Jignofcere pejjunt Veralona, at qut illit multum diverfa, remit a JUT Erroris nebula. ———How few Know their own good ; or, knowing...purfue ? How void of reafon are our hopes and fears ? DRYDEN. THE folly of human wifhes and purfuits has always been a flanding fubject of mirth and declamation,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 626 sidor
...1750. Fauci digncfcere fojjunt Vtra iona, atque illis mull um diverfa, remold. Erroris nebula* Juv, • How few Know their own good ; or, knowing it, purfue ? How void of reafon are our hopes and fears ? DR YDE H. TH E folly of human wifhes and purfuits has always been a flanding fubject of mirth and... | |
 | 1801 - 326 sidor
...« Pimci dignofcere pa/fant fer.i buna, atque illis mulnim di-verfa, remotA £rroris ntbula. Jirv. How few Know their own good ; or, knowing it, purfue ? How void of reafon are our hopes and fears? DRYDEN. *T HE folly of human wifhes and purfuits has •*• always been a ftanding fubject of mirth... | |
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Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue. 
