 | 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... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 sidor
...abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there, while their own runs to ruin.— Pope. MCXLV. 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 Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 442 sidor
...impossible to gain an exact habitude, without an infinite number of acu and perpetual practice. Id. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue. Id. No civil broils have since his death arose, But faction uow by habit does obey ; And wars... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 sidor
...always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there, while their own runs to ruin.^J~ MCXLV. 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1833 - 326 sidor
...'Tis 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...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... | |
 | Lady Catherine Pollock Manners Stepney - 1833 - 300 sidor
...RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET. (SUCCESSOR TO HENRY COLBURN.) THE NEW ROAD TO RUIN. CHAPTER I. 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. 
