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" 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 Conduft of our Life, appears So well defign'd, fo luckily begun, But, when we have our Wifli, we wifh undone "
Medulla poetarum romanorum, The most beautiful and instructive passages of ... - Page 529
by Henry Baker - 1737
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The Complete Art of Poetry: In Six Parts, I. Of the Nature, Use ..., Volume 2

Charles Gildon - Criticism - 1718 - 490 pages
...too great a Slave, None are fo bufy as the Fool and Knave. Dryd. Mid. ^ WISHES. ('How. Ind. Sateen. Look round the habitable World, how few % Know their own Good, or knowing it, perfue ! How. void of Reafon are our Fiopes and Fears [ What in the Conduit of OUT Life appears So...
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The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, tr. into Engl. verse, by mr. Dryden ...

Juvenal - 1726 - 468 pages
...of Body and Mind And LOOK T OOK round the Habitable World, how few ••— ' Know their own God ; or knowing it, purfue. How void of Reafon are our...Fears! What in the Conduft of our Life appears So well deflgn'd, fo luckily begun, But, when we have our With, we wifh undone? Whole Houfes, of their whole...
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The Guardian, Volume 1

1747 - 584 pages
...Pain. GIVE me leave to fortify my unlearned Reader with another Bit of Wifdom from Juvenal by Dry den. Look round the habitable World, how few Know their...void of Reafon are our Hopes and Fears ! What in the Condufi of our Life appears But, when we have our Wijh, we wi/h undone? So well de/ign'd, fo luckily...
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The Miscellaneous Works: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales ..., Volume 4

John Dryden - English poetry - 1760 - 476 pages
...thefe, it is not much matter what •we want befdes; for we have already enough to make us happy. X 2 LOOK round the habitable world, how few Know their...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 with, we wifh...
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The Art of English Poetry: Containing. Rules for making verses. A collection ...

Edward Bysshe - English language - 1762 - 358 pages
...at once The Hand of Chance o'erturns, and loofely fcatters. Kowe WISHES. See Content. (Amb. Stefm. Look round the habitable World, how few Know their...well defign'd, fo luckily begun, But when we have our Wiih, we wifh undone ? Whole Houfes of their whole Defires pofieft, Are often ruin'd at their own Requeft....
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The life of John Buncle, Esq: containing various observations and ..., Volume 1

Thomas Amory - 1766 - 558 pages
...righteoufnefs, and the puniflimcnt of wickednefs unto a future ftate of cxiftence. SECTION XIII. ' Look round the habitable world, how few Know their...fo luckily begun, But, when we have our wifli, we wifli undone ? The tenth Satire of Juvenal. DRYDEN. Omnibus in ten ir, quz funt a Gadibus ufque Auroram...
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The Life of John Buncle: Esq; Containing Various Observations and ...

Thomas Amory - Anecdotes - 1766 - 572 pages
...rightcoufnefs, and the puuifnnicnt of wickednefs unto a future ftate of cxiftence. SECTION SECTION XIII. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their...purfue. How void of reafon are our hopes and fears 1 What in the conduct of our life appears So well defign'd, fo luckily begun, But, when we have our...
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The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq: Containing All His Original ...

John Dryden - English poetry - 1767 - 398 pages
...eloquence, fame for martial alchievements, long life, and beauty ; and gives inflances, in each, bow LOOK round the habitable world, how few Know their...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 wifli, we wifh...
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The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq: Containing All His Original ...

John Dryden - English poetry - 1767 - 396 pages
...eloquence, fame for martial atchievements f long life, and beauty ; and gives in/lances, in each, how LOOK round the habitable world, how few Know their own good; or knowing it, porfue. How void of reafon are our hopes and fears! What in the conduit of our life appears So well...
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The Life of John Buncle, Esq: Containing Various Observations and ...

Thomas Amory - English wit and humor - 1770 - 406 pages
...righteoufnefs, and the puniihment •of wickednefs unto a future ftate of exiftence. SECTION SECTION XIII. round the habitable world, how few Know their own good; or knowing it, puriue. How void of reafon are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduit of our life appears So well...
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