 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 sidor
...If we have these, it id not much matter what wo want besides ; for we have already enough to make ua happy. 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 welt... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1837 - 400 sidor
...FOR THIRTY YEARS' HAPPINESS, THIS TRACT IS INSCRIBED BY HER EVER GRATEFUL BASIL MONTAGU. HAPPINESS. 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... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1837 - 252 sidor
...a future pain. Give me leave to fortify my unlearned reader another bit of wisdom from Juvenal, by Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue! How void of reason are our hopes and fears t What in the conduct of our life appears Bo well... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 480 sidor
...pauci dignoacere poesunt Vera dona, atque »Hie multum diversa, remota Erroris nebula Ло. Sat. II 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 1Ша the suppliant... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 478 sidor
...is hut health of hody and mind. And if we have these, it is not much matter what we want hesides ; for we have already enough to make us happy. LOOK round the hahitahle world, how few Know their own good ; or knowing it, pursue How void of reason are our hopes... | |
 | 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 - 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,... | |
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Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue. 
