 | John Bell - 1789 - 442 pàgines
...for thee : 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. If dreams yet... | |
 | John Bell - 1789 - 428 pàgines
...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, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end. Nor deem, when... | |
 | William Mudford - 1802 - 166 pàgines
...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 patron, and the jail. See nations, slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 238 pàgines
...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. See nations, slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 350 pàgines
...so shocking anacciJen* it was pulled down many years since. THE VANITY OP HUMAN W1SHT.1. l6t Thcre mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the gaol. See natjons, slowly wise and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. Jt dreams yet flatter,... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1806 - 788 pàgines
...profound and unequalled IcaraIng of this Great Scholar Is now universally acknowledged, and at length Nations slowly wise and meanly just To buried merit raise the tardy bust. LIFE OF RICHARD BENTLEY, DD Late Regius Professor of Divinity, and Master of Trinity Cambridge, England.... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - 1807 - 470 pàgines
...afforded him an asylum. It reminds us of Dr. Johnson's h'nes, so often quoted on similar occasions. " See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust ! " , The collection of paintings in the royal Musseum, Musseum, is very large ; and though it consists... | |
 | sir James Edward Smith - 1807 - 416 pàgines
...medallion, and various other things rather too much in a heap. This should have been his epitaph : " See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, " To buried merit raise the tardy bust." Johnson's Panity of Human IVishet, ver. 159. Near the old chxirch stands the very house in which the... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 pàgines
...labour : Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pauic awhile from letteia, to be wise ; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the gaol. The Vanity of Human Wishes, the subject of which is in a great degree founded on the ALGIBIADES of... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 pàgines
...labour : Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, A»d pause awhile from letteii, to be wise ; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the gaol, The Vanity of Human Wi,hes, the subject of which is in a great degree founded on the Ai.ciBIADES of... | |
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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. 
