 Fortune, that with malicious joy Does man her slave oppress, Proud of her office to destroy, Is seldom pleased to bless : Still various, and unconstant still, But with an inclination to be ill, Promotes, degrades, delights in strife, And makes a lottery...  Herodotus - Σελίδα 194των Herodotus - 1812Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Publius Ovidius Naso - 1857 - 260 σελίδες
...the loss of his ten thousand a year, and in the Latin beautifully. Dryden's translation runs thus : Fortune, that with malicious joy Does man, her slave,...oppress, Proud of her office to destroy. Is seldom pleased to bless. Still various and unconstant still, But with an inclination to be ill, Provokes,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 σελίδες
...and their folds together drown : Both house and homestead into seas are borne; And rocks are. frnrr Fortune, that with malicious joy Does man, her slave,...oppress, Proud of her office to destroy, Is seldom pleased to bless : Still various, and inconstant still, But with an inclination to be ill, Promote?,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 444 σελίδες
...power ; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hou»-. Fortune, that with malicious joy Docs man, her slave, oppress, Proud of her office to destroy, Is seldom pleased to bless : Still various, and inconstant still, But with an inclination to be ill, Promotes,... | |
 | Horace - 1858 - 508 σελίδες
...mine, Not Heav'n itself upon the past has pow'r, 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 pleased to bless : Still various and unconstant still, But with an inclination to be ill, Promotes,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1858 - 694 σελίδες
...splendid audacity, and reaches, in the final passages, a sublimity beyond that of the original : — Fortune, that with malicious joy Does man her slave...oppress, Proud of her office to destroy Is seldom pleased to bless : Still various and unconstant still, But with an inclination to be ill, Promotes,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1858 - 450 σελίδες
...mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power ; Bat 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 pleased to bless : Still various, and inconstant still, But with an inclination to be ill, Promotes,... | |
 | 1858 - 592 σελίδες
...splendid audacity, and reaches, in the final passages, a sublimity beyond that of the original : — Fortune, that with malicious joy Does man her slave oppress, Proud of her oftice to destroy Is seldom pleased to bless : Still various and unconstant still, But with an inclination... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 480 σελίδες
...mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power ; But what has heen, has heen, and I have had my hour. Fortune, that with malicious joy Does man her slave...Proud of her office to destroy, IS seldom pleas'd to hless : Still various, and unconstant still, But with an inclination to he ill, Promotes, degrades,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1859 - 636 σελίδες
...the final passages, a sublimity beyond that of the original : " Fortune, that with malicious joy Docs man her slave oppress, Proud of her office to destroy Is seldom pleased to bless : Still various and unconstant still, But with an inclination to be ill, Promotes,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 σελίδες
...lived to-day. Be fair or foul, or rain or shine, The joys I have possess'd, in spite of fate, are mine. Fortune, that with malicious joy Does man, her slave,...oppress, Proud of her office to destroy, Is seldom pleased to bless : Still various, and inconstant still, But with an inclination to be ill, Promotes,... | |
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