 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 276 Seiten
...and the jail. iso See nations, slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet flatter, once 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 Bartlett - 1856 - 660 Seiten
...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. Line 257.... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 Seiten
...: 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 flatter,... | |
 | Henry Howard M. Herbert (4th earl of Carnarvon.) - 1856 - 62 Seiten
...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... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 Seiten
...piece of ignorance in office ! BEAUMONT and FLETCHER. — The Eldar Brother, Act II. Scene 1. ILLS. — Mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. Da. JOHNSON. — Vanity of Human Wishes, Line 150. What ills from beanty spring. DR. JOHNSON. — Ibid.... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 Seiten
...VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES. Let observation with extensive view Survey mankind, from China to Peru. Line 1. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, — Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. Line 159. He left a name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. Line 221.... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 Seiten
...continued. 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 ; See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. Johnson,VHW 159.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 Seiten
...philosopher. " 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 flatter,... | |
 | English poetry - 1867 - 336 Seiten
...patron, and the jail. See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end. 30 Nor deem, when Learning her last prize bestows, The glittering eminence exempt from foes : See when... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1868 - 280 Seiten
...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. ^ ieo See nations, slowly wise, and meanly just, — To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams... | |
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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. 
