...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...against the light. All men knew God, and, knowing, disobeyed ; And gloried to insult him — to his face. Look round— the habitable world, how few — Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue I 'Tie all men's office— to speak patience- To those lhat toil— undnr a load of sorrow....

...to benefit the cause of morals. The following is an extract from his celebrated tenth satire : — " 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...

...thunder the reply. Begone ! forever leave this happy sphere : For perjur'd lovers have no mansions here. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue. Happiness — does not consist so much in outward circumstances and personal gratifications,...

...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...

...true light, or good or evil see.' " But," he added, musing, " what is Dryden's ? lia ! I have it : " ' Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue.' " This is indeed the language of a poet; it is better than the original." The great majority...