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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. "
The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces ... - Page 300
by Great Britain - 1804
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Volume 1

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...
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Carleton's Hand-book of Popular Quotations

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,...
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Complete manual of analysis and paraphrasing, by W. Davidson and J.C. Alcock

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...
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A dictionary of poetical illustrations

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...
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Favorite Odes & Poems

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,...
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson

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...
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Pen Sketches by a Vanished Hand: From the Papers of the Late ..., Volume 2

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,...
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Horace's odes, Englished and imitated by various hands, selected and ...

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...
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An Empire of Information: Uniting Four Regions of Thought ...

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,...
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A Thousand Thoughts from Various Authors

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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