 | 1831 - 790 pagine
...thee : Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, Anof pause awhile from Letters, to be wise ; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the gaol, TSee nations, slowly wise and meanly justj To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet... | |
 | James Hardiman - 1831 - 488 pagine
...stone tells where he lies." The indignant exclamation of Johnson is not even yet applicable to us : — See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust ! A musical commemoration of the bard was celebrated in Dublin, in 1809. It was chiefly composed of... | |
 | James Hardiman - 1831 - 484 pagine
...stone tells where he lies." The indignant exclamation of Johnson is not even yet applicable to us: — See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust ! A musical commemoration of the bard was celebrated in Dublin, in 1809. It was chiefly composed of... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 378 pagine
...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,...bust. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Hear Lydiatt's life, and Galileo's end. Nor deem, when learning her last prize bestows, The glitt'ring eminence... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 858 pagine
...thee : Deign on the passing world to turn thine eves, And pa'ise a while from learning, to he wisn ; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil,...jail. See nations, slowly wise, and meanly just, To huried merit raise the tardy hust. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Hrar Lydiatt's life, and... | |
 | Archibald Bell - 1835 - 456 pagine
...SCEIBONIUS." XXVIII. PAINS AND PENALTIES OF AUTHORSHIP. Quicquid erit vitee scribam color. HOR. Then mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. JOHNSON. " TO THE KEEPER OF THE CABINET. " SIR, — Your reception of my former letter induces me to... | |
 | Archibald Bell - 1835 - 456 pagine
...SCRIBONIUS." XXVIII. PAINS AND PENALTIES OP AUTHORSHIP. Quicquid erit vitss scribam color. HoR. Then mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. JoHNSoN. « TO THE KEEPER OF THE CABINET. " SIR, — Your reception of my former letter induces me... | |
 | Gulian Crommelin Verplanck - 1836 - 76 pagine
...(as nearly the whole of it did for centuries) the galling though gilded chain of patronage. Yet think what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron and the gr.ol, — said the indignant Johnson, filled as he was with habitual reverence for rank, yet resenting,... | |
 | Gulian Crommelin Verplanck - 1836 - 76 pagine
...(as nearly the whole of it did for centuries) the galling though gilded chain of patronage. Yet think what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron and the ge.ol, — said the indignant Johnson, filled as he was with habitual reverence for rank, yet resenting,... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1837 - 338 pagine
...impatient, told him abruptly to con over Johnson's 'Vanity of Human Wishes,' particularly the lines — There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail." Such was the lecture of a man of the world to a man of letters. The man of the world I shall have occasion... | |
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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. 
