 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 500 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...mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, tvant, the patron, and the jail. See nations, slowly wise and meanly just, To buried merit raise the... | |
 | Alexander Balfour, Campbell (fict. name.) - 1819 - 972 pages
...implied agreement, to make no reference to what was at best a very disagreeable subject. CHAPTER XV. Here mark what ills the scholar's life assail , Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. JOHNSON. As the removal of my father's family was to take place in a short time, it became necessary... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 370 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...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... | |
 | Henry Luttrell - 1820 - 248 pages
...Note 30, page 210, lines 11 and 12. He may, when all resources fail, Prefer — a patron to a jail. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail ; Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. Johnson. The politician is more fortunate. He has- generally his choice between these two last evils.... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 572 pages
...and whose posthumous honours form a painful illustration of the forcible couplet of the satirist, " See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust." The prose of Mr. Tobin, which sometimes succeeds in alternate elegance to his poetry, has on several... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 pages
...thy shade; Yet hope not life from 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 learning, to be wise ; There mark what ills, the scholar's life assail. Toil, envy, want, the patronv... | |
 | 1822 - 292 pages
...the doom of man reversed for thee: Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the...To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet natter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end 4 , i 6" 1 Nor deem.whenLearning her... | |
 | 1832 - 698 pages
...powerfully and graphically given a sketch of this subject : — " Deign on the passing world to tum thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters to be wise...life assail. Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the gaol. Sec nations, slowly wise and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust; If dreams yet... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 442 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 ; * There is a tradition, that the study of friar Bacon, built on an arch over the bridge, will fall when a man... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 436 pages
...the gown ;" but this expression, it appears, was only resumed from the reading in the first edition. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the gaolh. See nations, slowly wise and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet... | |
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