 | Samuel Johnson - 1868 - 282 pages
...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. ^ ieo See nations, slowly wise, and meanly just, — To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams... | |
 | Paul Theroux - 1986 - 388 pages
...so cross about Lord Chesterfield's cold shoulder that he rewrote his imitation of Juvenal, Yet think what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the Patron, and the jail. Mr Whitaker is very good on the paradoxes of philanthropy, and on the numerous motives that impel the... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pages
...scholar his homeless despondency. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, poet, philosopher There mark what ills the scholar's life assail: Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the gaol. Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer Of making many books there is no... | |
 | David McKitterick - 1992 - 556 pages
...than that of the author, anxious as he was that his book should be properly presented to the world. Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And...life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.56 The difficulty for authors, whether at Cambridge or elsewhere, lay in discovering the requisite... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...Through all his veins the fever of renown Burns from the strong contagion of the gown; (1. 135-138) 18 ise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. (1. 17-20) 135 A perfect Woman, nobly planned, (1. 159-160) 19 He left the name, at which the worldgrew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. (1.... | |
 | J. C. D. Clark - 1994 - 292 pages
...Johnson thanked him for 'your regard to learning'.15 In The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), Johnson wrote: There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the garret, and the jaiL Attention has focused on the second line, where in the 1755 edition of the poem... | |
 | Steven Lukes - 1995 - 284 pages
...the scholarly life, whose comforts and protections he had hitherto taken so much for granted, saying, Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And...assail. Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. Was the recognition that Two had offered worth considering? It certainly wouldn't be recognition of... | |
 | Steven Lukes - 1996 - 274 pages
...considering? It certainly wouldn't be recognition of his scholarly merits, as Johnson went on to point out: See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. But Pope was even more dismissive of the very idea of being tempted by Two's suggestions. 'What's fame?'... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind." 6 There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the gaol. SAMUEL JOHNSON, (1709-1784) British author, lexicographer. The Vanity of Human Wishes, I. 1 59-60... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 396 pages
...insolence, and is paid with flattery" — and the famous revision in The Vanity of Human Wishes — "There mark what Ills the Scholar's Life assail, /Toil, Envy, Want, the Patron, and the Jail."37 Evidently Johnson likes to ventilate his revenge. Yet his satirical hits also seem to assume... | |
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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. 
