| William Godwin - Human beings - 1831 - 614 pages
...Dryden's celebrated verses are but a maniac's rant : To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have lived to-day : Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power, But what has been... | |
| John Dryden - 1837 - 482 pages
...within, can say, To-morrow do tliy worst, for I have liv'd to-day. Be fair, or foul, or rain, or thine, The joys I have possess'd, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power ; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. Fortune,... | |
| Joel Pinney - 1838 - 256 pages
...following infatuated exclamation of a free-liver ? " To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day : Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine; Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, But what has been,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 334 pages
...the reach of accident or violence, nor can be lost either by our own weakness or another's malice : " Be fair or foul, or rain or shine, The joys I have possess'd, in spite of fate are mine Nor Heaven itself upon the past has power, Bat what has been, has been, and 1 have had my hour." DXYDEN.... | |
| Richard Hildreth - Slavery - 1840 - 208 pages
...laws do not allow him to possess. When he has consumed a thing he is sure of it, and only then — Be fair or foul, or rain or shine The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine, Nor heaven itself upon the past has power, But what has been,... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1841 - 790 pages
...might well lay down the reins of office and say — " To-morrow do thy worst, for I have liv'd my day; Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine — The joys I have possess'd, in spite of fate are mine; Not heaven itself, upon the past has pow'r— What has been, has been— and I have had my hour." Whilst... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...call to-day his own: He who, secure within, can say, Til-morrow do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day. sp arc mine. Not Ьеатеп itself upon the past has power ; But what has been, has been, and I have... | |
| Rose Ellen Temple - 1846 - 984 pages
...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, The joys I have possess'd, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. JOBS DBYDEN.... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 624 pages
...JJififfil, iuJctlHmqut rrddrl, Qiujd fugicnt gtmtl kora tiiit. Be fair or foul, or raiii or (bine, The joys I have possess'd, in spite of fate are mine. Not HenviHi itself upon the past has power, But wlm has been, nas been, and I have had my hour. D1YDKN.... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...to-day his own : day! He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day. M, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, an posscss'd, in spite of fate, are mine. Not "heaven itself upon the past has power; Bat what has been,... | |
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