 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Amory - 1770 - 406 sidor
...righteoufnefs, and the punifhment of wickednefs unto a future ftate of exiftence. SECTION SECTION XIII. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their...void of reafon are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduct of our life appears So well defign'd, fo luckily begun, But, when we have our wifh, wewifh... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - 1776 - 654 sidor
...timenttti Aut cupimus ? Quid tarn dextro pede coticipis, ut te Conatus non pceniteat, voiique peratli * ? How void of reafon are our hopes and fears ! What in the progrefs of our life appears So well defign'd, fo dext'roufly begun, But, when we have our wifh, we... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 390 sidor
...is but health of body and mind. And if we have thefe, it is not much matter what we want belides ; for we have already enough to make us happy. LOOK...void of reafon are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduft of our life appears Sr So well defign'd, fo luckily begun, But, when we have our wifh, we wifh... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 398 sidor
...It is but health of body and mind. And if we have thefe, it is not much matter what we want hef:des; for we have already enough to make us happy. LOOK...world, how few Know their own good ; or, knowing it, purlue. How void of reafon are' our hopes and fears ! What in the conduft of our life- appear* So So... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 1130 sidor
...It is but health of body and mind. And if we have thefe, it is not much matur what we want befides; for we have already enough to make us happy. LOOK round the habitable world, how few Know thtir own good j or, knowing it, purfue. How void of reafon are our hopes and fears !• What in the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1780 - 288 sidor
...beginning of the fatyr [the icthj the poet obferves ; Look round the habitable world, how few K now their own good, or knowing it, purfue ! How void of reafon are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduft of our life appears So well defign'd, fo luckily begun, But, when we've got our wifh, we wifh... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 388 sidor
...thefe, it is not much matter what we want befides; for we have already enough to make us happy. 3. OOK round the habitable world, how few. Know their own...void of reafon are our hopes and fears! What in the conduft of our life appears So So well defign'd, fo luckily begun, But, when we have our wifh, we wifh... | |
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Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue. 
