 | Charles F. Beezley - Literature - 1891 - 436 pages
...I have lived to-dajr. Be fair or foul, or rain or shine, 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, I'roud of her office to destrov, Is... | |
 | American poetry - 1892 - 520 pages
...fate, Left free the human will. POPE, The Universal Prayer. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. IBID, Imitation of Horace, Heaven from all creatures hides the Book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd,... | |
 | Poetry - 1892 - 524 pages
...fate, and first destroys the mind. I u ID, Hind and Panther. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. IBID, Imitation of Horace. . My fate cries out, And makes each petty artery in this body As hardy as... | |
 | Julien Gordon - 1892 - 296 pages
...laughs back at him and says, " Smite ! for I have lived ! " Not Heaven itself upon the past has power ; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour. My God ! when I think of Wednesday night I want to die out of sheer ecstasy at your incomparable goodness.... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American literature - 1892 - 380 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.' " One has a notion that in those old times the days were longer than now; that a man called to-day... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1893 - 262 pages
...her mine. Cp. Dryden, transl. of Horace, Odes, i. 29, " Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour." 9. These violent... ends. Walker points out that violent is used in the first instance as a trisyllable... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Vendetta - 1893 - 258 pages
...her mine. Cp. Dryden, transl. of Horace, Odes, i. 29, " Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour." 9. These violent . . . ends. Walker points out that violent is used in the first instance as a trisyllable... | |
 | David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - English periodicals - 1894 - 556 pages
...shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate of mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour. THE BLUE DRYAD. STOFFLES was her name, a familiar abbreviation, and Mephistophelian was her nature.... | |
 | Henry Clay Trumbull - Christian ethics - 1894 - 202 pages
...been is, and ever must be. TJo hope of change is there. " Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour." There are both natural and moral impossibilities in the realm of God's doings. That which cannot be,... | |
 | 1895 - 610 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... | |
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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... 
