 | Samuel Rogers - 1856 - 434 pages
...Dryden's imitations of Horace," he would say, " are better than the originals : how fine this is ! — 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 ; Be fair or foul, or rain... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1856 - 362 pages
...Dryden's imitations of Horace," he would say, " are better than the originals : how fine this is ! — 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 ; Be fair or foul, or rain... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pages
...our art, At country wakes sung ballads from a cart. Imitation of the 2Qth of Horace. Book i. Line 65. 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. Mac Flecknoe. Line 20. But... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 pages
...are from their old foundations torn ; And woods, made thin with winds, their scatter'd 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... | |
 | Horace - 1858 - 536 pages
...pecus et domos Volventis una, non sine montium Clamore vicinseque silvae, Cum fera diluvies quietos 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,... | |
 | Greek - 1859 - 568 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 480 pages
...are from their old foundations torn, And woods, made thin with winds, their scatter'd honours 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 liv'd to-day. Be fair, or foul, or rain,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 pages
...are from their old foundations torn ; And woods, made thin with winds, their scatter'd 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... | |
 | 1863 - 636 pages
...Dryden hath it, — professedly translating Horace, but really far transcending the Latin lyrist. — " 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,... | |
 | Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1861 - 424 pages
...genius of Dryden, and his peculiar mastery of the great rhythmical resources of our language : — Z 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,... | |
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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 today. 
