 | Thomas Love Peacock - English literature - 1875 - 488 pages
...infectumque reddet, Quod fugiens semel hora vexit. HOK. 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, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven... | |
 | Quotations - 1875 - 540 pages
...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,...To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day." DRYDEN. The man who has lived for beneficent purposes, and has laid up a store of good actions, has... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...unexpected happiness, the first Degrees of joy are mere astonishment. '43 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. DRYDEN. Since we have lost Freedom, wealth, honour, which we value most, I wish they would our lives... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...diapason closing full in Man. A Song for St. Cecilia's Day. Line 1 1 . 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.* Imitation of Horace. Book i. Ode 29. Line 65. Not heaven itself upon the past has power... | |
 | Donald A. Low - Literary Criticism - 1974 - 474 pages
...licet in diem Dixisse vixi.1 Or, in the spirited version of Dryden, Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call to-day his own, He who, secure within, can say Tomorrow do thy worst, — for I have liv'd to-day. Sentiments akin to that which I have described, harmonizing so happily with the mixture... | |
 | Helen Bevington - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 238 pages
...views, for God's sake, short views." Horace defined a happy man: Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call today his own: He who, secure within,...fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. So did Matthew Arnold (writing about Goethe): And he was happy,... | |
 | David Ogilvy - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 218 pages
...Horace wrote my epitaph, and Dryden translated it into English: 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. 170 FAVORITE WORDS I am fascinated by this list of words. abcedary akimbo chiaroscuro diapason egregious... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...British poet. Pippa Passes, pt. 1, "Morning" (1841). Pippa's song. 3 Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own; He who, secure within,...say, Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today. JOHN DRYDEN, (1631-1700) British poet, dramatist, critic. "Imitation of Horace," bk. 3, Ode 29 (1685).... | |
 | Arthur Herman - History - 1997 - 538 pages
...diem. Life was too short, and happiness too fleeting, to permit any postponement of gratification. Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today; Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of Fate are mine . . .6 But the Greco-Roman view of time also contained the conviction... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...And Music shall untune the sky. 3070 (translation of Horace: Odes) Happy the man, and happy he alone, d was Jerusalem builded here Among these dark Satanic...1349 Milton {prefacel Bring me my bow of burning gol 3071 (translatlon of Juvenal: Satires) Look round the habitable world! how few Know their own good;... | |
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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. 
