 Believe me, royal youth, thy fruit must be, Or gather'd ripe, or rot upon the tree. Heav'n has to all allotted, soon or late, Some lucky revolution of their fate: Whose motions if we watch and guide with skill, (For human good depends on human will,)...  The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose - Page 41by John Dryden - 1859Full view - About this book
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 412 pages
...upon the tree: Heaven has to all allotted, soon or late, Some lueky revolution of their fatei Whose motions, if we wateh and guide with skill, (For human...on human will,) Our fortune rolls as from a smooth deseent, Ami from the first impression takes the benti But if unseiz'd, she glides away like wind,... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 314 pages
...has to all allotted, soon or late, Some lucky revolution of their fate; Whose motions, if we watch and guide with skill, (For human good depends on human...smooth descent, And from the first impression takes the bent; But if unseized, she glides away like wind, And leaves repenting folly far behind. Now, now she... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...has to all allotted, soon or late, Some lucky revolution of their fate : Whose motions if we watch ur out unto all, And unto none my graces do envy :...estate, and all this worldes good, For which men s bent ; But if unseiz'd, she glides away like wind, And leaves repenting folly far behind. Now, now... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...Heaven has to all allotted soon or late, Some lucky revolution of their fate; Whose motions if we watch and guide with skill. For human good depends on human...smooth descent, And from the first impression takes the bent ; But if unseized ! she glides away like wind, And leaves repenting folly far behind ! The same... | |
 | Regina Maria Roche - 1825 - 318 pages
...has to all allotted, soon or late, Some lucky revolutions of their fate, , Whose motions, if we watch and guide with skill, (For human good depends on human...descent, * . And from the first impression takes the bent ; But, if unseized, she glides away like wind, And leavei repenting folly far behind." ORYDEN.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...upon the tree. Heaven has to all allotted, soon or late, Some lueky revolution of their fate : Whose deseent, And from the first impression takes the bent ; But if unseiz'd, she glides away like wind,... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...Heav'n has to all allotted, soon or late, Some lucky revolution of their fate: Whose motions if we watch and guide with skill (For human good depends on human...smooth descent, And from the first impression takes its bent; But if unseiz'd, she glides away like wind, And leaves repenting folly far behind, jVow,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 pages
...fate : Whose motions if we watch and guide with skill, (For human good depends on human will,) 255 Our fortune rolls as from a smooth descent, And from the first impression takes the bent : But, if unseiz'd, she glides away like wind, And leaves repenting folly far behind. Now, now... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...all allotted soon or late, Some lucky revolution of their fate; Whose motions if we watch and gnide with skill, For human good depends on human will....smooth descent, And from the first impression takes the bent ; But if unseized ! she glides away like wind, And leaves repenting folly far behind ! The same... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 pages
...forsook himself deserved to be forsaken.' Dr. J. W* 40 4i Whose motions if we watch and guide with (For human good depends on human will,) Our fortune...smooth descent, And from the first impression takes the bent : But, if unseiz'd, she glides away like wind, And leaves repenting folly far behind. Now, now... | |
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