 | Samuel Johnson - 1968 - 400 ページ
...shine, The joys I have possess'd in spite of fate are mine. Not heav'n itself upon the past has pow'r, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour. Dryden. There is certainly no greater happiness, than to be able to look back on a life usefully and... | |
 | E. J. Kenney, W. V. Clausen - 1982 - 996 ページ
...shine, The joys I have possest, in spight of fate are mine, Not Heav'n it self upon the past has pow'r; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. 1 See C. Brooks in Ricks (ed.) (1968) 76. 20 LOVE ELEGY I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION The elegiac distich... | |
 | 1876 - 590 ページ
...alone, He who can call to-day his own, He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day. Be fair, or foul, or rain or...what has been, has been, and I have had my hour." CHABLIS M. Goo AN, ) JL BRADBURY, I Committee, JJ DELACY, ) At a regular meeting of Boston Division... | |
 | David Armstrong - 1989 - 196 ページ
...alone, He, who can call today his own; He who, secure within, can say, "To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today; Be fair or foul, or rain, or shine,...what has been, has been, and I have had my hour." One could compare the fountain-poem to a Japanese fan folded up so that as little as possible is seen;... | |
 | Richard Jenkyns - 1992 - 526 ページ
...he alone, He who ean 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...But what has been has been, and I have had my hour. This is undoubtedly superb English verse, but it is not quite Horatian, too grand (if in a somewhat... | |
 | R. Crosby Kemper (III.) - 1996 - 278 ページ
...At about this time he copied out for himself Dryden's lines: "Not Heaven itself over the past hath power / But what has been has been, and I have had my hour." Lord Randolph was chancellor of the Exchequer for a few months in 1886, resigning before he even produced... | |
 | Steven N. Zwicker - 1998 - 362 ページ
...The joys I have possest, in spight of fate are mine. / Not Heav'n it self upon the past has pow'r; / But what has been has been, and I have had my hour" (lines 65-72).35 Celebrating the ownership of one's own life, Dryden intensifies with Pindaric amplitude... | |
 | Peter France - 2000 - 692 ページ
...shine, The joys I have possest, in spight of fate are mine. Not Heav'n it self upon the past has pow'r, But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour And yet there is a paradox. This version of Horace bears, in many of its parts, only a loose relation... | |
 | Girolamo Cardano - 2002 - 322 ページ
...alone, He who can call to-day his own: He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day! Be fair or foul, or rain or shine:...But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. 3. "To be content that times to come should only know there was such a man, not caring whether they... | |
 | Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 ページ
...even past." — William Faulkner "The past is certain; that which is to come is obscure." — Pittacus "Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour." — John Dryden "The next day is never as good as the day before." — Publilius Syrus "Ah, how they... | |
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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... 
