 | Andrew Becket - Great Britain - 1838 - 396 pages
...as mankind are concerned : of the §ame complexion is the passage in Horace, Nil admirari, &c. — Not to admire, is all the art I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so. — which means, that the only way to be happy in this life, is to be insensible to every thing... | |
 | Andrew Becket - Great Britain - 1838 - 320 pages
...far as mankind are concerned : of the same complexion is the passage in Horace, Nil admirari, &c. — Not to admire, is all the art I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so. — which means, that the only way to be happy in this life, is to be insensible to every thing... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1839 - 1084 pages
...admirari, prope res eat una, Numici, Solaque qute possit facere et servare beatum.' Horat. Ep. vi. 12. " Not to admire is all the art I know To make men happy, and to keep them so." — Creech. B 2 truth ; it accompanied me at college ; and it has stuck by me in the world —... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...vapours clouds this dcmi-god. THE SIXTH EPISTLE OP THE FIRST BOOK OF HORACE. то ira. MTTKRAY. " Nor - so." (Plain truth, dear MURRAY, needs no flowers of So take it in the very words of Creech1.) [speech,... | |
 | 1841 - 744 pages
...'nil admirari' principle as any sage it was ever my fortune to meet. And has not wise Horace told us, "Not to admire is all the art I know. To make men happy, and to keep them so !" Sir John saw little to admire, for the natural reason that he could not see much of anything... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - English fiction - 1843 - 346 pages
...admirari, prope res est una, Numici, Solaque quse pos'sit facere et servare beatum.' Herat. Ep. vi. 12. " Not to admire is all the art I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so." — Creech, B 2 truth ; it accompanied me at college ; and it has stuck by me in the world —... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...perhaps too light and familiar, but certainly neither quaint nor obtcurc. EPISTLE VI. TO MR. MURRAY*. " NOT to " admire, is all the art I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so." Plain truth, dear MURRAY, needs no flowers of speech, So take it in the very words of Creech.... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...fit of vapours clouds this demi-god. THE SIXTH EPISTLE THE FIRST BOOK OF HORACE. TO MR. MURRAY, e " NOT to admire, is all the art I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so." (Plain truth, dear MURRAY, needs no flowers of speech, So take it in the very words of Creech... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1849 - 390 pages
...threat He mutter'd (but the last was given aside) About a bow-string — quite in vain; not yet 1 [" Not to admire, is all the art I know To make men happy, and to keep them so, (Plain truth, dear Murray, needs no flowers of speech, So take it in the very words of Creech.'"]... | |
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NOT to admire, is all the art I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so. 
