 | Horace - Latin poetry - 1861 - 372 pages
...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...fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power ; But what has been,... | |
 | 1863 - 636 pages
...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,...fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine : Not Heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been,... | |
 | Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1861 - 424 pages
...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...fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possess'd, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power ; But what has been,... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1861 - 334 pages
...infectumque reddet, Quod fugiens semel hora vexit. HOB. Carm. iii. 29. Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within,...To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day. Be storm, or calm, orTain, or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...torn; And woods, made thin with winds, their scatter'd honors moi <. Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call to-day his own: He who, secure within,...Be fair or foul, or rain or shine, The joys I have possess'd, in spite of fate, are mine. Fortune, that with malicious joy Does man, her slave, oppress,... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1863 - 608 pages
...— " Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who ean call to-day his own; He who, secure within, ean say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day. Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys 1 have possessed, in spite of fate, arc mine : Nut Heaven itself upon the past has power; But what... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...torn ; And woods, made thin with winds, their scatter'd honors mo» Happy the man, and hnppy he alone, He who can call to-day his own: He who, secure within,...Be fair or foul, or rain or shine, The joys I have possess'd, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has powei ; dut what has been,... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...country wakes sung ballads from a cart. Prologue to Lee's Sophonisbo. Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within,...say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day. Imitation of Horace. Book i. Ode 29. Line 65. But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Mac Flech,oe.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pages
...And woods, made thin with winds, their scattcr'd honours mourn. Happy the man, and happy he alone, * sity : -lx Imperious need, which cannot be withstood, possess'd, in spi£e of fate, are mine. " Not Heaven itself upon the past has power ; But what has... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1868 - 828 pages
...&^ ""^ v He who can call to-day his own : V-& f»~" *«t" "?' -l"* ' " „ , ... -z*~r' o. >-<.<£. 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 65. Not heaven itself upon the past has power... | |
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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. 
