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" Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue. "
The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill - Page 64
by John Bell - 1807
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The Satyrs of Decimus Junius Juvenalis:: And of Aulus Persius Flaccus

Juvenal - 1735 - 512 pages
...Health of Body and Mmd _ -And if we have theft, ''tit not much matter what we want bejides; Jtr me tave already enough to make us happy. LOOK round the Habitable...World, how few Know their own Good ; or knowing it, purfue. HowvoidofReafonare our Hopes and Fears! What in the Conduct of our Life appears So well defign'd,...
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The Miscellaneous Works: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales ..., Volume 4

John Dryden - 1760 - 476 pages
...but health of body and mind. And if we have tbefe, it is not much matter what we want bejides ; for we have already enough to make us happy. LOOK round...world, how few Know their own good; or knowing it, purfue. How void of reafon are our hopes and fears! What in the conduft of our life appears So well...
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The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq;: Containing All His Original ...

John Dryden - 1760 - 476 pages
...thefe, it is not much matter what •we want bejides ; for we have already enough to make us happy. X 2 LOOK round the habitable world, how few Know their own good ; or knowing it, purfue. How void of reafon are our hopes and fears! What in the conduct of our life appears So well...
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 35

1766 - 768 pages
...fee Review, yo). xi. p. 501. : Section xiii opens with the following motto, from Dryden's Juvenal : ' Look rou.nd, the habitable world, how few Know their own good ; or knowing it, purfue. .How void of realbn are our hopes and fears! What in the conrluftof our life appears So well...
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The Life of John Buncle, Esq: Containing Various Observations and ..., Volume 2

Thomas Amory - 1766 - 572 pages
...righteoufnefs, and the punifhment of wickednefs unto a future flate of cxiftence. SECTION SEGTION XIII. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good ; or knowing it, purfue. How void of reafon are our hopes and fears 1 What in the conduct of our life appears So well...
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The life of John Buncle, Esq: containing various observations and ..., Volume 1

Thomas Amory - 1766 - 558 pages
...righteoufnefs, and the puniflimcnt of wickednefs unto a future ftate of cxiftence. SECTION XIII. ' Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good ; or knowing it, purfue. How void of reafon are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduft of our life appears ( So well...
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The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq: Containing All His Original ...

John Dryden - 1767 - 398 pages
...health of body and mind. And if -we have thefe, it is not much matter iahat iut want be/ides ; for we have already enough to make us happy. LOOK round...world, how few Know their own good; or knowing it, purfue. How void of reafon are our hopes and fears ! What in the condud of our life appears So well...
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The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq: Containing All His Original ...

John Dryden - 1767 - 398 pages
...body and mind. And if we have thefe, it is not much matter what we want bejldes ; for we have alnady enough to make us happy. LOOK round the habitable world, how few Know their own good; or knowing it, porfue. How void of reafon are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduit of our life appears So well...
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The World, by Adam Fitz-Adam, Volume 1

1776 - 296 pages
...July 12, 1753. — — " Pauci dignofcere poflunt " Vera bona, atque illis multum diverfa."— Juv. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, purfue. IT is a common obfervation, that though happinefs is every man's aim, and though it is generally...
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The Works of the English Poets: Virgil, trans. by Dryden

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 384 pages
...but health of body and mind. And if we have thefe, it is not much matter what we want betides; for we have already enough to make us happy. LOOK round...world, how few Know their own good; or, knowing it, purfue. How void of reafon are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduit of our life appear* So well...
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