 | William Wetmore Story - 1851 - 696 pagine
...prejudice almost denies to a great scholar the right to be eminent as a jurist. Dr. Johnhas said,— ' And mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron and the gaol.' " None of these were the evils of our friend. His only evil was, that his reputation as a lawyer was... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pagine
...grief or danger free, Nor think the doom of man reversed for thee : Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters to be wise...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... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1852 - 500 pagine
...contains the general lesson which the moralist teaches. In the next verses it precedes the examples : 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,... | |
 | Johnson Society - 1921 - 46 pagine
...danger free, Nor flunk the doom of man reversed for thee; Deign on the passing world to turn thine And •pause awhile from letters to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life eyes, assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron and the jail; See nations, slowly wise and meanly just,... | |
 | Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott - 1852 - 574 pagine
...3rd, 1646. The society of New College have marked the spot, near the south window of the choir. "Then 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 272 pagine
...reversed 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, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. 160 See nations, slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 pagine
...find the longimde, or burn the Thames. Dr. Woleofs Peter Pindar. Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters to be wise ; There mark what ills the seholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail ; See nations slowly wise and meanly... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pagine
...Wishes. Line 1. Let observation with extensive view Survey mankind, from China to Peru.* Line 159. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, — Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. Line 221. He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.... | |
 | Henry Howard M. Herbert (4th earl of Carnarvon.) - 1856 - 62 pagine
...thorny the road to knowledge had been in his day. He would never have written those lines, — " Then mark what ills the scholar's life assail ; Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the gaol," — had he not acutely remembered the bitter experience of his early career. But whilst he admired... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 pagine
...: Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from learning, to be wise : Tbero 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... | |
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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. 
