 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 384 頁
...have thefe, it is not much matter what we want betides; for we have already enough to make us happy. LOOK round the habitable world, how few Know their own good; or, knowing it, purfue. How void of reafon are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduit of our life appear* So well... | |
 | David Simpson - 1780 - 628 頁
...OOK round the habitable World,how few JCnowtheirownGood,orknowing it, purfue. How How vpid ofReafon are our Hopes and Fears ! What in the Conduct of our Life appears So well defign'd, fo luckily begun. But, when we have ourWifh,we wi(h undone ? HYMN CCCXX. 1 TMSMISSuswiththyBIeffing,... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 388 頁
...thefe, it is not much matter what we want befides; for we have already enough to make us happy. 3. OOK round the habitable world, how few. Know their own good; or, knowing it, purfue* How void of reafon are our hopes and fears! What in the conduft of our life appears So So well... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 582 頁
...PAUCI DIGNOSCIRE TOSSUNT VF.RA BORA, ATOJJX lLt.lt MULTUM DIVIRSA, RIMOTA IRRORIS NEBULA. . -HOW TIVT KNOW THEIR OWN GOOD; OR KNOWING IT, PURSUE? HOW VOID OF REASON ARE OUR HOPKS AND TEARS ? DRYDIS. THE folly of human wiflies and puriuits has always been a (landing fubjeft... | |
 | 1794 - 450 頁
...illis niultum diversa, remota Erroris nebula —— — juv. »AT. x. 1. " Look round the habitual world, how few , " Know their own good, or knowing it pursue ? " How rarely reason guides the stubborn choice, " Prompts the fond wish, or lifts the suppliant voice ?"... | |
 | 1795 - 758 頁
...round the'habitable world, how few Know their own good, osknowing it, purfue-. Hn'.v void of reafon are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduct of our life appears, So well defign'd, fo luckily begun, But, when we have our wifB, we with' undone ? Whole houfes, of their whole... | |
 | 1797 - 522 頁
...Give me leave to fortify my unlearned reader with another bit of wifdom from Juvenal, by Dryden : ' Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, purfue ! How void of reafon are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduct of our life appears So well... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 380 頁
...Give me leave to fortify my unlearned reader with another bit of wisdom from Juvenal, by Pryden : ' Look round the habitable world, how few Know their...! What in the conduct of our life appears So well design'd, so luckily begun, But, when we have our wish, we wish undone !' Even the men that are distinguished... | |
 | 1803 - 440 頁
...Give me leave to fortify my unlearned reader with mother bit of wisdom from Juvenal, by Dry den. Loek round the habitable world, how few Know their own...! What in the conduct of. our life appears So well design'd, so luckily begun, But when we have our wisji, we wish undone ! Even the men that are distinguished... | |
 | 1803 - 290 頁
...dignoscere possunt Vera bona, atque illis multum diversa, remota '< Err or ii nebula. • • . - , i .-../. How few Know their own good ; or, knowing it, pursue ? How void of reason are our hopes and fears .' DKYDEN-. •It* -«».» THE folly of human wishes and pursuits has always been a standing subject... | |
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LOOK round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue. How void of reason are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduct of our life appears So well... 
