 | Edward Bysshe - English language - 1710 - 620 pages
...glides away like Wind, And leaves repenting Folly far behind. Dryd. Abs. fy Atbit. On what ftrange Grounds we build our Hopes and Fears ! Man's Life is all a Mift, and in the Dark pur Fortunes meet us. If 1 ate be nor, then what can we forefee ? And how can... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 462 pages
...yet he lives! — Perhaps I took the moment of his birth .Amiss : Perhaps my art itself is false. — On what strange grounds we build our hopes and fears...! and, in the dark, Our fortunes meet us. If fate be not, then what can we foresee ? Or how can we avoid it, if it be? If by free will in our own paths... | |
 | Ronald M'Chronicle (pseud.) - 1825 - 804 pages
...VOLUMES. BY RONALD M'CHRONICLE, Es<j. AUTHOR OF LEGENDS OF SCOTLAND, CFIRST AND SECOND SERIES,; a,c. On what strange grounds we build our hopes and fears ! Man's life is all a mitt, and in the dark Our fortunes meet us. If fate be not, then what can we foresee f And how can... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of doing them to others. —Mr ir. Temple. CCLXIII. On what strange grounds we build our hopes and fears...mist, and in the dark Our fortunes meet us. If fate be not, then what can we foresee? And how can we avoid it if it be ? If by free-will in our own paths... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...doing them to others. —Sir W. Temple. ccLxm. On what strange grounds we build our hopes and tears Man's life is all a mist, and in the dark Our fortunes meet us. If fate be not, then what can we foresee? And how can we avoid it if it be? If by free-will in our own paths... | |
 | John Gideon Millingen - 1839 - 1016 pages
...following passage, " \Vhat Heaven decrees no prudence can prevent." and then again " On what strange ground we build our hopes and fears ! Man's life is all a...mist, and in the dark Our fortunes meet us. If fate be not, then what can we forsee, And how can we avert it if it be ?" " Ye cruel powers ! Take me ns... | |
 | John Thomas Smith - Great Britain - 1845 - 328 pages
...was admitted to a whispering audience with the doctor, which soon produced my introduction to him. " Man's life is all a mist, and in the dark our fortunes meet us." Standing beneath a masonic lustre, the doctor immediately recognised me as a friend of John Ireland,... | |
 | Emma Robinson - 1846 - 1102 pages
...nomine, sed re — Thais. Alexandr filia, sponsa, nurus." CJESAR BORGIA. 23 CHAPTER III. THE DOMINICAN. " Man's life is all a mist, and in the dark Our fortunes meet us." — DRYDEM. A DEEP and somewhat awful silence followed tor some minutes, and then Messer Bembo spoke... | |
 | Catherine Grace F. Gore - 1854 - 328 pages
...Windsor. He must have a peremptory explanation with him, to decide his future measures. CHAPTER XXVII. Man's life is all a mist, and in the dark Our fortunes meet us. DBYDEN. " NIGHT," quoth the proverb, " brings counsel ;" and the break of day found General Maxwell... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 610 pages
...by fate, Whieh in sueeess oft disinherits, For spurious eauses, noblest merits. Butler's Hudibras. On what strange grounds we build our hopes and fears!...mist, and in the dark Our fortunes meet us. If fate be not, then what ean we foresee 7 And how ean we avoid it if it be ? If by free will in our own paths... | |
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On what strange grounds we build our hopes and fears ! Man's life is all a mist ! and, in the dark, Our fortunes meet us. 
