 | 1821 - 818 sidor
...almost surpasses the original. What can be more beautifully easy and simple than the opening ? — '• Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue." And yet how he warms with his subject as he advances, pouring forth thought that breathe,... | |
 | 1821 - 618 sidor
...almost surpasses the original. What can be more beautifully easy and simple than the opening ? — " Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue." And yet how he warms with his subject as he advances, pouring forth thoughts that breathe,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 316 sidor
...but ' health of body and mind :'—And if we have these, it is not much matter what we want besides; for we have already enough to make us happy. LOOK round the habitable world, how fewKnow their own good ; or, knowing it, pursue ! How void of reason are our hopes and fears ! What... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1822 - 508 sidor
...Give me leave to fortify my unlearned reader with another bit of wisdom from Juvenal by Dryden : ' Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue ! How void of reason are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduct of our life appears So well... | |
 | Thomas Amory - 1823 - 358 sidor
...too many doctors in town and country, but by practising upon consistent principles. CHAPTER XXIII. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good ; or knowing it, pursue. How void of reason are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduct of our life appears So well... | |
 | 1824 - 292 sidor
...dignoscere possunt VETO, bana, atque Hits multum diversa, remota Erroris nebula Joy. Sat. 10. v. 1. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue. 1 )n » N.KV In my last Saturday's paper (No. 201,) I laid down some thoughts upon devotion... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1825 - 288 sidor
...dignoscere possunt Vera Luna, atque illis inultnm diversa, remotd. Erroris nebula Jpv. Sat. X. 1. 1. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good ; or, knowing it, pursue ! DRYDEN. IN my last Saturday's paper I laid down some thoughts upon devotion in general, and... | |
 | 1826 - 434 sidor
...pain. Give me leave to fortify my unlearned reader with another bit of wisdom from Juvenal, by Dryden : Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue ! How void of reason are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduct of our life appears So well... | |
 | George Crabb - 1826 - 768 sidor
...want of prudence and discernment not to pursue some plan on every occasion which requires method ; Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. DRYDEK. Will ye not now the pair of sages praise, Who the same end pursu'd by several ways... | |
 | 1828 - 454 sidor
...scenes of crowded life ; Then say how hope and fear, &c. Hear how Dryden dashes into this at once : — Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. He beats even the closeness of the Latin ; and never dreams of such a useless first line as... | |
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Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue. 
