 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...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...fears! What in the conduct of our life appears So well design'd, so luckily begun, But, when we have our wish, we wish undone! Drydcn's Juvenal. MCXLVL A... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...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...! What in the conduct of our life appears So well design'd, so luckily begun, But, when we have our wish, we wish undone f Dryden's Juvenal. MCXLVI.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 828 pages
...propitious still to me, Conduct my steps to find the fatal tree, In this deep forest. Dryden'i Mneid. How void of reason are our hopes and fears ! What...luckily begun, But when we have our wish, we wish undone ? Id. Juvenal. Shame of change, and fear of future Ш : And zeal, the blind conductor of the will.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 pages
...power, propitious still to me, Conduct my steps to find the fatal tree, In this deep forest. Dryden'i How void of reason are our hopes and fears! What in...our life appears So well designed, so luckily begun, Bat when we have our wish, we wish undone ? Shame of change, and fear of future ill : And zeal, the... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 442 pages
...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 have... | |
 | Lady Catherine Pollock Manners Stepney - 1833 - 300 pages
...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...begun, But, when we have our wish, we wish undone ? DRYDEN. " I AM so sorry you do not go with me today," said Ellen, as Lorevaine arranged her music... | |
 | John Dryden - 1833 - 326 pages
...these, it is not much matter what we want besides ; for we have already enough to make us happy. LOOK round the habitable world, how few Know their own...! What in the conduct of our life appears So well design'd, so luckily begun, 5 But, when we have our wish, we wish undone ? Whole houses, of their whole... | |
 | 1836 - 1118 pages
...Vera bona. atque illis multurn divcria, remota Erroria nebula Jr?. Sat. x. I. Look round the nabitable world, how few Know their own good. or. knowing It, pursue ? How rarely reanon guidée the «ubborn choir«, „••••" Prompt! the fumi wish, or lift» II..-... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1837 - 400 pages
...THIRTY YEARS' HAPPINESS, THIS TRACT IS INSCRIBED BY HER EVER GRATEFUL BASIL MONTAGU. HAPPINESS. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own...! What in the conduct of our life appears So well design'd, so luckily begun, But when we have our wish, we wish undone. So sung the poet, and so said... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 pages
...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...fears ! "What in the conduct of our life appears So welt design'd, so luckily begun, But, when we have our wish, we wish undone ? Whole houses, of their... | |
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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... 
