 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 Complete Art of Poetry: In Six Parts, I. Of the Nature, Use, Excellence ... - Página 251por Charles Gildon - 1718Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | John McGovern - 1880 - 762 páginas
...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 páginas
...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,... | |
 | Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1880 - 320 páginas
...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... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 páginas
...Truth has such a face and such a mien, As to be loved needs only to be seen. AFTER HORACE. 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. From the EPISTLE TO SIR GODFREY... | |
 | 1881 - 300 páginas
...half-a-crown in English money ; a French franc being equal to tenpence, nearly. IMPROVE THE PRESENT MOMENT. 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... | |
 | Horace - 1881 - 420 páginas
...genius of Dryden, and his peculiar mastery of the great rhythmical resources of our language : — ' " 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,... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1881 - 216 páginas
...than one of his characters. Indeed, the three last stanzas of this are well worth quotation, — THL 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 foal, or rain,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 páginas
...are from their old foundations torn ; And woods, made thin with winds, their scattered honors mourn. oh my soul, devoutly thiuk, How, with affrighted ey secure within, can say, To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have lived to-day ! Be fair or foul, or rain... | |
 | Evan Daniel - 1881 - 420 páginas
...predicatively, eg— The way was long, the wind was cold, The minstrel was iafirm and old. — Scott. Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call to-day his own. — Dryden. Adjectives used predicatively usually follow the word which they qualify, but may precede... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 páginas
...are from their old foundations torn ; And troods, 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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