Plutarch just now told me, that 'tis in human life as in a game at tables, where a man may wish for the highest cast, but, if his chance be otherwise, he is e'en to play it as well as he can, and to make the best of it. The Works of Alexander Pope - Página 195de Alexander Pope - 1737Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 páginas
...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, where a man may wish for the highest cast, but, if his chance be otherwise, he is e'en to play it as well as he can,... | |
| Henry Riddell Montgomery - 1865 - 476 páginas
...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, where a man may wish for the highest cast, but if his chance be otherwise, he is e'en to play it as well as he can,... | |
| Henry Riddell Montgomery - 1865 - 476 páginas
...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, where a man may wish for the highest cast, but if his chance be otherwise, he is e'en to play it as well as he can,... | |
| English authors - 1869 - 458 páginas
...Thus, Sir, you see, I would flatter myself into a good opinion of my own way of living. Plutarch just now told me, that 'tis in human life as in a game at tables, where a man may wish for the highest cast, but, if his chance be otherwise, he is e'en to play it as well as he can,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1871 - 512 páginas
...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, where a man may wish for the highest cast, but, if his chance be otherwise, he is even to play it as well as he can,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1871 - 520 páginas
...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, where a man may wish for the highest cast, but, if his chance be otherwise, he is even to play it as well as he can,... | |
| John Tillotson - 1882 - 400 páginas
...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,... | |
| 1897 - 184 páginas
...bolder thoughts can rise Than man's presumption on to-morrow's dawn. Where is to-morrow? YOUNG. 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,... | |
| George Gregory Smith - 1898 - 316 páginas
...Thus, Sir, you see I would flatter my self into a good Opinion of my own Way of Living* Plutarch just now told me, that 'tis in human Life as in a Game at Tables, one may wish he had the highest Cast, but if his Chance be otherwise, he is even to play it as well... | |
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