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" 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 74
by Pierre Bayle - 1826 - 438 pages
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An Historical and Critical Dictionary, Volume 2

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...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volume 13

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...
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An historical and critical dictionary, selected and abridged, Volume 2

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,...
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A Comparative View of Christianity: And of the Other Forms of ..., Volume 1

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...
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A Comparative View of Christianity: And of the Other Forms of ..., Volume 1

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,...
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The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life, Volume 1

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...
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The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and ...

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...
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes ...

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...
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A dictionary of poetical illustrations

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...
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson

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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