 | Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 Seiten
...Tbc joys I Lave possessed, in spite of fate, are mine! Kot heaven itself upon the past has power ; e was bright, Fortune, that with malicious joy Does man, lier slave, oppress, Proud of her office to destroy, Is... | |
 | Mortimer Collins - 1883 - 326 Seiten
...night I was happy ! Well saidst thou, glorious John — ' Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.' That hour in that garden with Lucy was worth a millennium of common life. Laugh if you will, you who... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1885 - 516 Seiten
...shine, The joys I have possessed, 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." IX. Fortune, that with malicious joy Does man, her slave, oppress, Proud of her office to destroy,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1889 - 514 Seiten
...shine, The joys I have possessed 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.' ' One has a notion that in those old times the days were longer than now ; that a man called to-day... | |
 | Peter William Clayden - 1889 - 502 Seiten
...The joya I have possessed, 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.' because when at school together he had defended Clare from bigger boys — conferring a favour always... | |
 | Sir Spencer Walpole - 1889 - 546 Seiten
...motto which Lord Russell placed on his title-page : — Not heaven itself upon the past has power : But what has been has been, and I have had my hour. For the interest which attaches to the quotation arises from the circumstance that thirty-eight years... | |
 | Peter William Clayden - 1889 - 490 Seiten
...shine, The joys I have possessed, 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.' because when at school together he had defended Clare from bigger boys—conferring a favour always... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 566 Seiten
...hours we have had, and as Dryden boldly says from Horace : Not Heaven itself upon the past bos power ; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. My head orders my heart to stop. suaded he will not dislike, to the benefit of the Bath Hospital" He... | |
 | William T. Ross - 1890 - 400 Seiten
...strokes. 2. The plowman homeward plods his weary way. 3. Not heaven itself upon the past has power, But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. 4. Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold ; Ring out the thousand... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1891 - 208 Seiten
...shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of Fate are mine ; Kot heaven itself upon the past has power, But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.' " One has a notion that in those old times the days were longer than now ; that a man called to-day... | |
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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... 
