To dalliance, banquet, and ignoble ease. The path to peace is virtue : what I show, Thyself may freely on thyself bestow ; Fortune was never worshipp'd by the wise, But, set aloft by fools, usurps the skies. An Historical and Critical Dictionary - Page 74by Pierre Bayle - 1826 - 438 pagesFull view - About this book
| Pierre Bayle - Biography - 1826 - 494 pages
...fortuna, dram ca-loque locamus. Fortune was uever worshipp'd by the wise : But, set aloft by foots, usurps the skies. DRYDEN. Some moderns have approved...for the same opinion in one of his satires : Nous somuies du bonheur de nous mesme artisans, Et fabriquons nos jours ou fascheux ou plaisans. La fortune... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 444 pages
...and ignoble ease. The path to peace is virtue : what I show, Thyself may freely on thyself bestow ; Fortune was never worshipp'd by the wise, But, set aloft by fools, usurps the skies. THE SIXTEENTH SATIRE OF JUVENAL. THE ARGUMENT. The Poet in Ms satire proves, that the condition of... | |
| Pierre Bayle - 1826 - 494 pages
...depends on prudence ? Nullum mmic:i abest, si sit prudentia : scd te Nos facimus, fortuna, deam cicloque locamus. Fortune was never worshipp'd by the wise...same opinion in one of his satires: Nous sommes du bonheur dc nous mesme artisans, Et fabriquons nos jours ou fascheux ou plaisans. La fortune est a nous,... | |
| William Laurence Brown - Christianity and other religions - 1826 - 350 pages
...and ignoble ease. The path to peace is virtue ; what I show, Thyself may freely on- thyself bestow. Fortune was never worshipp'd by the wise ; But, set aloft by fools, usurps the skies." — DUYDKW. a Nil ergo optabunt homines ? Si consilium vis, Permittes ipsis expendere numinibus, quid... | |
| William Laurence Brown - Christianity and other religions - 1826 - 346 pages
...and ignoble ease. The path to peace is virtue ; what I show, Thyself may freely on thyself bestow. Fortune was never worshipp'd by the wise ; But, set aloft by fools, usurps the skies.8 — DRY&EW- 1 Nil ergo optabunt homines ? Si consilium vis, Permittes ipsis expendere numinibus,... | |
| John Dryden - 1837 - 482 pages
...and ignoble ease. The path to peace is virtue : what I show, Thyself may freely on thyself bestow : Fortune was never worshipp'd by the wise ; But, set aloft by fools, usurps the skies. THE SIXTEENTH SATIRE OF JUVENAL. THE ARGUMENT. The poet in thla satire proves, tb.it the condition... | |
| John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pages
...and ignoble ease. The path to peace is virtue : what I show, Thyself may freely on thyself bestow : Fortune was never worshipp'd by the wise ; *"" But, set aloft by fools, usurps the skins. THE SIXTEENTH SATIRE OP JUVENAL. THX AHOUMEXT. The poet, In this Satire, proves, that the condition... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...own proper DRYDEN. The path to peace is virtue : what I show, Thyself may freely on thyself bestow : Fortune was never worshipp'd by the wise, But, set aloft by fools, usurps the skies. DRYDEN. He whose mind Is virtuous, is alone of noble kind ; Though poor in fortune, of celestial race ; And... | |
| Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...harmonie. Habington. The path to peace is virtue : what I show, Thyself may freely on thyself bestow : force it with thy smile, Than hew to Ч with thy sword. — Shakespeare. Kindness in What, what is virtue but repose of mind, A pure ethereal calm, that knows no storm ; Above the reach... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...proper light. DRYDEN. The path to peace is virtue : what I show, Thyself may freely on thyself bestow : Fortune was never worshipp'd by the wise, But, set aloft by fools, usurps the skies. DRYDEN. He whose mind Is virtuous, is alone of noble kind ; Though poor in fortune, of celestial race ; And... | |
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