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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. "
Elegant Extracts: A Copious Selection of Instructive, Moral, and ... - Page 261
1817
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Elegant Extracts, Volumes 1-2

Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 606 pages
...for llioc : Deign on the p;i lag world to turn thine e\es, And pause a while from Irr.irning, to l>e nss, Timprove those charms.and keep them in repair, Forwiiichthcspoiler tlic patron, and the jail. See nations slowly wise, and meanly just. To buried merit raise the tardy...
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Smart, Wilkie, P. Whitehead, Fawkes, Lovibond, Harte, Langhorne, Goldsmith ...

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 652 pages
...thy shade; Yet hope not life from grief or danger free, Nor think the doom of man revers'd for thee : Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And...the jail. See nations, slowly wise and meanly just, T" buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet Batter, once again attend, Hear Lydiafs life, and...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 16

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 666 pages
...from grief or danger free, Nor think the doom of man revers'd for tbee : Deign on the passing vrorld to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters...life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jar!. See nations, slowly wise and meanly just, Tn buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet...
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The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson: Collated with the Best Editions

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 208 pages
...shade ; Yet hope not life from grief or danger free, Nor think the doom of man revers'd for thee : Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise , i Earl of Stratford. - Earl of Clarendon. 9 There was a tradition, that the study of Frur Barou,...
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Hypocrisy: A Satire, in Three Books. Book the First

Charles Caleb Colton - 1812 - 292 pages
...other. In his Poem, entitled "Vanity of human wishes," a Couplet was altered ; it now stands thus, "There mark what. ills the Scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the Patron, and the Jail." And in his Dictionary this definition follows that ill-starred word, "Patron, Commonly a wretch who...
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Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal

Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1814 - 572 pages
...their impartiality in judgment ; as if we wished always to deserve the reproof of our satirist, " That nations slowly wise and meanly just To buried merit raise the/ tardy bust." For the not inferior but living names of Eichhorn and Paulus, our libraries have not a vacancy, nor...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Critical Observations on His Works

Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 pages
...cultivated genius and learned toil. " 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, efivy, want, the patron *, and the jail" On the 6th of February this year, his tragedy of Irene, which...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 510 pages
...free, Nor think the doom of man, revers'd for thee : Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyesy And pause awhile from Letters, to be wise ; There...life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the gaolh. See nations, slowly wise and meanly just, * There is at tradition, that the study of friar Bacon,...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 13

1823 - 746 pages
...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...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 pages
...think the doom of man revers'd for thee : Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And-«pause awhile from Letters, to be wise; There mark what ills...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...
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