 | John Dryden - 1808 - 462 Seiten
...: Perhaps my art itself is false. — 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. If fate be not, then what can we foresee ? Or how can we avoid it, if it be? If by free will in our... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 450 Seiten
...: Perhaps my aft itself is false. — 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. If fate be not, then what can we foresee ? Or how can we avoid it, if it be? If by free will in our... | |
 | Ronald M'Chronicle (pseud.) - 1825 - 804 Seiten
...OP SCOTLAND, (FIRST AND SECOND SERIESJ 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. If fate be not, then what can we foresee ? And how can we avoid it, if it be ! DRYDEN. VOL. III. 1,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 Seiten
...them to others. —Mr ir. Temple. CCLXIII. 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. If fate be not, then what can we foresee? And how can we avoid it if it be ? If by free-will in our... | |
 | Hannah More - 1836 - 250 Seiten
...in mind these lines of Mr. Dryden : ' 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. If fate he not, then what can we foresee 1 And how can we avoid it, if it be 1' But supposing the planets... | |
 | John Gideon Millingen - 1839 - 1016 Seiten
...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... | |
 | John Thomas Smith - 1845 - 324 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
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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. 
