 | Alfred Beesley - 1842 - 758 pagine
...Johnson, in his " Vanity of Human Wishes," where, speaking of unfortunate learned men, he says : — " There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the gaol. See nations, slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet flatter,... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1843 - 68 pagine
...celebrated couplet, in which the words seem to fall like drops of blood from a lacerated heart : But ah ! what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron and the jail. To this source we may trace, in part, that personal element which glows so intensely in the lyric... | |
 | 1846 - 602 pagine
...Johnson could do without Lord Chesterfield : could substitute in satire the patron for the garret — " There mark what ills the scholar's life assail ; Toil, envy, want, the patron and the gaol ;" could call Andrew Millar the bookseller, the Mecajnas of his day, and add a compliment that was... | |
 | 1853 - 730 pagine
...— Deign on the passing world to turn [bis] eyes, And pause awhile from letters to be wise, [Might] mark what ills the scholar's life assail — Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. Our great nation is rapidly becoming a community of readers ; and decided superiority, if it... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - 610 pagine
...Lord Chesterfield : could substitute in satire the patron for the garret — '•There mark what llis the scholar's life assail ; Toil, envy, want, the patron and the gaol j'* could call Andrew Millar the bookseller, the Meсазnаs of his day, and add a compliment that... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pagine
...reversed for 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 patron, and the jail. See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pagine
...revers'd for thee : Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to he wise ; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1848 - 394 pagine
...and why are they called " supple?" What is patriot used for ? What questions should they ask? 35. " There mark what ills the Scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust." Did Johnson... | |
 | Pacing - 1850 - 84 pagine
...futurity will, doubtless, not leave wanting in statues. Turn to the tearful, troubled, touching past ; " There mark what ills the scholar's life assail ; Toil, envy, want, the patron and the jail. See nations slowly wise and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust : If dreams yet... | |
 | 1851 - 626 pagine
...and why are they called "supple?" What is patriot used for? Wbat questions should they ask ? .'J5. " There mark what ills the Scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust." Did Johnson... | |
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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. 
