 | Thomas Love Peacock - English literature - 1875 - 488 pages
...shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour. A LARGE party was assembled at the Grange. Among them were some of the young ladies who were to form... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Books - 1876 - 694 pages
...spare the reader ; the other, from Dryden, runs thus : — " Not Heaven itself upon the post has power, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour." The earlier part of the book has been published before ; and the remainder consists of desultory remarks... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power ; rowned ? What though, when they hear my soft strain I Fortune, that with malicious joy Does man, her slave, oppress, Proud of her office to destroy, Is... | |
 | Hermann Knust - 1879 - 738 pages
...twenty-ninth Ode of the first Book of Нога«. St. УШ: Not heaven itself upon the past has power, But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. La langue convient refréner Bien entendre et peu parler, Car la parolle une fois envolée Ne peut... | |
 | Mortimer Collins - Authors, English - 1879 - 270 pages
...The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine : Not Heaven itself upon the past has power ; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour." We are obliged to accept Henry Murger as the exponent of Parisian Bohemianism, seeing that Paris so... | |
 | Arthur B. Davison - English literature - 1880 - 396 pages
...shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate are mine; Not heaven itself upon the past has power, But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. Dryden — Horace, Odes, b. iii. ode 29. HAPPINESS. OH we are querulous creatures ! Little less Than... | |
 | John McGovern - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 762 pages
...shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate are mine, Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. The Duke of Buckingham was thus described under the name of Zimri, in " Absolem and Achitophel": 1.... | |
 | Horace - 1881 - 420 pages
...The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power ; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. Fortune, that with malicious joy Does man her slave oppress, Proud of her office to destroy, Is seldom... | |
 | 1881 - 300 pages
...shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power ; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. ancient hap-pened lawsuit set^-tle-ment purchase sur-prise' nn-der-stood' vo-ca-tion op-por-tu-ni-ty... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1882 - 1434 pages
...mind. p. DBYDEN — Hind and Panther. Pt. III. Line 10'J4. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; $f$g$h$i$ g. DBYDEN — Imitation of Horace. Bk. I. Ode XXIX. Line 71. Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows:... | |
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Happy the man - and happy he alone He who can call today his own, He who, secure within, can say '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: Not Heaven itself... 
