 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 pagine
...for tbee : Deign on the passing vrorld to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters to be wise ; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jar!. See nations, slowly wise and meanly just, Tn buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - 250 pagine
...for thee : Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise ; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil,...again attend, Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end. Nor deem, when Learning her last prize bestows, The glittering eminence exempt from woes ; See when... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 626 pagine
...patron, and the jail. See nations flowly wife, and meanly jult, To buried Merit raife the tardy buft. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end. I cannot forbear adding, that Jii/injbn made an alteration in the fourth of thefe lines; at firft it... | |
 | Charles Caleb Colton - 1812 - 294 pagine
...other. In his Poem, entitled "Vanity of human wishes," a Couplet was altered ; it now stands thus, "There mark what. ills the Scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the Patron, and the Jail." And in his Dictionary this definition follows that ill-starred word, "Patron, Commonly a wretch who... | |
 | John Aikin - 1812 - 466 pagine
...Wishes," where, as a warning against the enthusiastical expectations of the young scholar, he says, If dreams yet flatter, once again attend ; Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end. The publications of Lydiat were almost entirely chronological, astronomical, and physical. He left... | |
 | John Aikin - 1812 - 462 pagine
...Wishes," where, as a warning against the enthusiastical expectations of the young scholar, he says, • If dreams yet flatter, once again attend ; Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end. The publications of Lydiat were almost entirely chronological, astronomical, and physical. He left... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1814 - 572 pagine
...their impartiality in judgment ; as if we wished always to deserve the reproof of our satirist, " That nations slowly wise and meanly just To buried merit raise the/ tardy bust." For the not inferior but living names of Eichhorn and Paulus, our libraries have not a vacancy, nor... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1815 - 512 pagine
...when his misfortunes were alluded to by Dr. Johnson in his "Vanity of Human Wishes," in these lines, " 'if dreams yet flatter, once again attend ; Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end :" it was a subject of inquiry, who Lydiat was ? The following is, we believe, a correct list of his... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1815 - 540 pagine
...his misfortunes were alluded to by Dr. Johnson in his " Vanity of Human Wishes," in these lines, " If dreams yet flatter, once again attend ; Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end :" it was a subject of inquiry, who Lydiat was J The following is, we believe, a correct list of his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 154 pagine
...for thee; Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil,...again attend, Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end. Nor deem when learning her last prize bestows., The glittering eminence exempt from foes; See when... | |
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Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. 
