 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 574 pagine
...and whose posthumous honours form a painful illustration of the forcible couplet of the satirist, " See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust." The prose of Mr. Tobin, which sometimes succeeds in alternate elegance to his poetry, has on several... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 314 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 foes; See, when... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 pagine
...thee : Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from learning, to be wise ; There mark what ills, the scholar's life assail. Toil, envy, want, the patronv and the gaol. See nations, slowly wise and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust.... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 320 pagine
...for thee : Deign on the passing world tp turn thine eyes, And pause a while from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil,...once again attend, Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end4. Nor deem.whenLearningher last prize bestows, The glittering eminence exempt from woes; See when... | |
 | 1822 - 292 pagine
...for thee: Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil,...To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet natter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end 4 , i 6" 1 Nor deem.whenLearning her... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 436 pagine
...edition. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the gaolh. See nations, slowly wise and meanly just, To buried...tardy bust. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Here Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end*. Nor deem, when Learning her last prize bestows, The glitt'ring... | |
 | 1832 - 698 pagine
...subject : — " Deign on the passing world to tum 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 gaol. Sec nations, slowly wise and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust; If dreams yet... | |
 | 1823 - 758 pagine
...subjects, do but recall the ingratitude, bigotry, and indifference of the ci-devant republic — ' . See nations slowly wise and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. Dante, Petrarch, and Boccacio were Florentines ; but where repose the all Etruscan three ? How long... | |
 | 1823 - 584 pagine
...their subjects, do but recall the ingratitude, bigotry, and indifference of the ci-devant republic — See nations slowly wise and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. Dante, Petrarch, and Boccacio were Florentines; but where repose the all Etruscan .three? How long... | |
 | Minstrel - 1824 - 246 pagine
...for thee : Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, lohe wise; There. mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the palron, and the jail. See nations slowly wise, and meanly just. To huried merit raise the tardy hust.... | |
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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. 
