 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 682 sivua
...consideration of this would make me very well contented with the possession only of that quiet which Cowley calls the companion of obscurity ; but whoever...own way of living : Plutarch just now told me, that it is in human life as in a game at tables : one may wish he had the highest cast ; but, if his chance... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 322 sivua
...consideration of this would make me very well contented with the possession only of that quiet which Cowley calls the companion of obscurity ; but whoever...own way of living : Plutarch just now told me, that it is in human life as in a game at tables : one may wish he had the highest cast ; but, if his chance... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 sivua
...calls the Companion of obscu ..... '•" I - Гrity. But whoever has the Muse too for his companion«, can never be idle enough, to be uneasy. Thus, Sir,...own way of living. Plutarch just now told me, that it is in human life as in a game at tables, where a man may wish for the highest cast; hut, if his... | |
 | 1824 - 268 sivua
...consideration of this would make me very well contented with the possession only of that quiet which Cowley calls the companion of obscurity; but whoever...own way of living. Plutarch just now told me, that it is in human life as in a game at tables; one may wish he had the highest cast; but if his chance... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 634 sivua
...well contented with the possession only of that quiet which Cowley calls the companion of obscurity .f But whoever has the muses too for his companions,...own way of living. Plutarch just now told me, that it is in human life as in a game at tables, where a man may wish for the highest cast, but, if his... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 630 sivua
...well contented with the possession only of that quiet which Cowley calls the companion of obscurity .f But whoever has the muses too for his companions,...own way of living. Plutarch just now told me, that it is in human life as in a game at tables, where a man may wish for the highest cast, but, if his... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 478 sivua
...consideration of this would make me very well contented with the possession only of that quiet which Cowley calls the companion of obscurity; but whoever...own way of living: Plutarch just now told me, that it is in human life as in a game at tables: one may wish he had the highest cast; but, if his chance... | |
 | Materials - 1846 - 478 sivua
...follow, one upon another, till the whole field comes to be one heap of miscarriages. — Seneca. It is in human life, as in a game at tables, where a man wishes for the highest cast ; but if his chance be otherwise, he is e'en to play it as well as he can,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 sivua
...well contented with the possession only of that quiet which Cowley calls the companion of obscurity 5. But whoever has the muses too for his companions,...own way of living. Plutarch just now told me, that it is in human life as in a game at tables, where a man may wish for the highest cast, but, if his... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 548 sivua
...possession only calls oscU his comr,^n;A whoever has the muses too for mpan,ons, can never be idle enouh to be uneasy. Thus, sir, you see I would flatter myself...own way of living. Plutarch just now told me, that it is in human life as in a game at tables, one may wish he had the highest cast; but if his chance... | |
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I would flatter myself into a good opinion of my own way of living : Plutarch just now told me, that it is in human life as in a game at tables... 
