| Thomas Love Peacock - 1875 - 488 pages
...est efficiet ; neque Diffinget infectumque reddet, Quod fugiens semel hora vexit. HOK. Carm. iii. 29. Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst. for I have lived to-day. Be storm, or calm, or rain, or shine, The... | |
| John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pages
...compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man. A Song for St. Cecilia's Day. Line 1 1 . Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day.* Imitation of Horace. Book i. Ode 29. Line... | |
| 1875 - 540 pages
...have lived:" that is, I have enjoyed, as they should be enjoyed, the blessings of existence: — " Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call to-day his own ; He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day." DRYDEN. The man who has lived for beneficent... | |
| Thomas Love Peacock - 1875 - 488 pages
...efficiet ; neque Diffinget inf ectumque reddet, Quod fugiens semel hora vexit. HOE. Carm. iii. 29. Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day. Be storm, or calm, or rain, or shine, The... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...fears we are surprised With unexpected happiness, the first Degrees of joy are mere astonishment. '43 Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call to-day his own : He who secure within can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day. DRYDEN. Since we have lost Freedom, wealth,... | |
| Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...are from their old foundations torn ; And woods, made thin with winds, their scattered honours mourn. e still mistrusted and suspected, unless he carry all can say, To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have lived to-day. Be fair or foul, or rain or shine, The joys... | |
| 1877 - 362 pages
...1. To-day. — Be wise TO-DAY ; 'tis madness to defer. YOUNG'S Night Thoughts, Night L line 390. — Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call TO-DAY his own : He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have Hv'd to-day. DRYDEN, Imitation of Horace, book i. ode... | |
| Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...fear to fall ; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all. — Wotton. 2. HOPE. Praise of HOPE, of all ill that men endure, The only chief and universal cure ! can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day. Drydtn. HAPPINESS HAPPINESS 1680. HAPPINESS... | |
| William Collins - 1877 - 104 pages
...are from their old foundations torn, And woods, made thin with winds, their scattered honors mourn. Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have lived to-day. Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The... | |
| William Davidson (B.A.), Joseph Crosby Alcock - 1877 - 240 pages
...not one : The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the sun. 1 8. Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow ! do thy worst, for 1 have lived to-day ! Be fair or foul, or rain or shine, The... | |
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