 | John Dryden - 1811 - 626 sidor
...thefe, it is not much matter what we want be/ides ; for we have already enough to make us happy. JLjQOK round the habitable world, how few Know their own good; or knowing it, purfue. Ver. 1. Look round] There is not perhaps in our language a poem of the moral and didactic fpecies,... | |
 | George Crabb - 1816 - 790 sidor
...blush at the thought, and регмемте, lest we lose all reverence for ourselves. H AWKKSWORTH. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pu-mf. DRYDTO. Will ye not now the pair of sares praise, Who tbe same end /шпи'Л by several ways.... | |
 | Sarah Renou - 1817 - 250 sidor
...serene peace and ineffable tranquillity which is essential to the permanent enjoyment of positive good. 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 - 1818 - 558 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 !" These who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 444 sidor
...is but health of body and mind ; and if we have these, it is not much matter what vie want besides ; for we have already enough to make us happy. LOOK...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... | |
 | 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... | |
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Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue. 
