 | Horace - 1881 - 420 pages
...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, has been, and I have had my hour. Fortune, that with malicious joy Does man her slave oppress, Proud of her office to destroy, Is seldom... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1876 - 732 pages
...Horace, we spare the reader ; the other, from Dryden, runs thus : — " Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour." The earlier part of the book has been published before ; and the remainder consists of desultory remarks... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1968 - 400 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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, 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 pages
...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, 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 pages
...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 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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
