 | Robert Conger Pell - 1857 - 444 sidor
...light, or good or evil see.' " But," he added, musing, " what is Dryden's ? Ha ! I have it : — ' Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing, it pursue.' II •' This is indeed the language of a poet ; it is better than the original." "SIR GAMMAR... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1857 - 436 sidor
...light, or good or evil see.' " But," he added, musing, " what is Dryden's ? Ha ! 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." "SIR GAMMAR TANS."... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1859 - 578 sidor
...here with Dryden's consummate rendering of the original, which is as literal as it is admirable: — ' Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue.' Johnson was cramped by the evident desire to avoid echoing a version which he could not mend.... | |
 | 1859 - 650 sidor
...here with Dryden's consummate endering of the original, which is as literal as it s admirable : — 'Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue.' lohnson was cramped by the evident desire to avoid echoing a version which he could not mend.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1859 - 750 sidor
...here with Dryden's consummate rendering of the original, which is as literal as it is admirable:— ' Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue.' Johnson was cramped by the evident desire to avoid echoing a version which he could not mend.... | |
 | 1859 - 584 sidor
...here with Dryden's consummate rendering of the original, which is as literal as it is admirable:— ' Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue.' Johnson was cramped by the evident desire to avoid echoing a version which he could not mend.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1859 - 750 sidor
...here with Dryden's consummate rendering of the original, which is as literal as it is admirable: — ' Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue.' Johnson was cramped by the evident desire to avoid echoing a version which l«e could not... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1859 - 680 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 th^ trouble... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 sidor
...Look here, upon this picture, and on this. SHAESPERE. — Hamlet, Act III. Scene 4. (To his Mother.) Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good ; or, knowing it, pursue. DRYDEN. — Juvenal's Satire, X. That constellation set, the world in vain Must hope to look... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 sidor
...Spanish Friar. Act ii. Sc. 1. This is the porcelain clay of human kind.* Don Sebastian. Act i. Sc. I. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue. Translation of Jucenal's Will Satire. * The precious porcelain of human clay. BYHON. Don Juan.... | |
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Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue. 
