 | Joel Pinney - 1838 - 256 sidor
...known, e man to abandon it, as it is to persuade a f oohsh oae to make trial O f it. INDOLENCE LUXURY. " Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue !" MAN was not created weak and distempered; nor do we learn from ancient history that he began... | |
 | Mary Ashdowne - 1839 - 328 sidor
...better portion of society, that we shall be able to form a correct estimate of our own condition. " Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue ! How rarely reason guides the stubborn choice, Prompts the fond wish, or lifts the suppliant... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 sidor
...hearts." Give e'en a fool the employment he desires, And he soon finds the talent it requires. — COOPER. 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 sidor
...been avoided. But such mistakes are not new ; history is full of the errors of states and princes. . "Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!" Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 352 sidor
...Glorious John Dryden, and compare his directness with the pompous pleonasms of the author of the Rambler. Look round the habitable world; how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. Hazlitt, I think, mentions that it was Wordsworth who first drew attention to these parallel... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 sidor
...Glorious John Dryden, and compare his directness with the pompous pleonasms of the author of the Rambler. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. * There are, however, many very fine monosyllabic lines in English Poetry. Hazlitt, I think,... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 714 sidor
...Glorious John Dryden, and compare his directness with the pompous pleonasms of the author of the Rambler. Look round the habitable world; how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. Hazlitt, I think, mentions that it was Wordsworth who first drew attention to these parallel... | |
 | John Davis - 1841 - 364 sidor
...passionate exclamation of the great Roman satirist. I will give it you in the version of glorious John : " 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 compass of our life appears So well... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 sidor
...pauci diffnoscere poasunt Vera bona, atque illis multum di versa, remola Erroria nebula Jm. Bat. x. L ere as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me: When his candl pursue 1 How rarely reason guides the stubborn choice, Prompts the fond wish, or lilts tbc suppliant... | |
 | Thomas Bardel Brindley - 1843 - 160 sidor
...after this unhappy youth died, in all the awful ravings of madness and despair. No. 10. VALENTINE. " Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue ? How rarely reason guides the stubborn choice ?" JUVENAL. " No more was seen the human form... | |
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Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue. 
