 | 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 secure within, can say, To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have lived to-day. Be fair or foul, or rain... | |
 | G.W. Carleton & Co - 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,... | |
 | William Davidson (B.A.) - 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... | |
 | 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 un secure within can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day. Drydtn. HAPPINESS 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,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...are surpr!!-eil With unexpected happiness, the first Degrees of joy are mere astonishment. 242 243 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... | |
 | Mortimer Collins - 1879 - 270 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 - 1880 - 320 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 lived to-day ! Be fair or foul, or rain or... | |
 | John McGovern - 1880 - 762 pages
...Notice how Dryden started the following ball rolling in English, Horace having originated the idea : 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,... | |
 | Arthur B. Davison - 1880 - 396 pages
...They appear in the head as if they had been seeking one another. Lander, Cleone to Aspasia. HAPPINESS. 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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