 | 1857 - 610 pàgines
...copper, completed this strange menagerie.' Can this be the Levett of Johnson's celebrated verses ? — ' In misery's darkest caverns known, His ready help...hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retired to die. ' No summons mock'd by chill delay, No petty gains disdained by pride, The modest wants... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 238 pàgines
...praise to merit unrefin'd. When fainting nature call'd for aid, And hov'ring death prepar'd the blow, His vigorous remedy display'd The power of art without the show. In mis'ry's darkest cavern known, ••seful care was ever nigh, Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 328 pàgines
...remedy display'd The pow'r of art without the show. In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh, Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan,...to die. No summons mock'd by chill delay, No petty gain disdain'd by pride, The modest wants of ev'ry day The toil of ev'ry day supply'd. His virtues... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 562 pàgines
...merit unrefin'd. " When fainting Nature call'd for aid, '' And hov'ring Death prepar'd the blow, " His vigorous remedy display'd " The power of art without...pour'd his groan, " And lonely Want retir'd to die.* a See an account of him in " The Gentleman's Magazine," Feb. 1785. 3 In both editions of Sir John Hawkins's... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 532 pàgines
...Death prepar'd the blow, " His vigorous remedy display'd " The power of art without the show. . i i< In Misery's darkest caverns known, " His ready help...Anguish pour'd his groan, " And lonely Want retir'd to die.4 1 See an account of him in " The Gentleman's Magazine/ Teb. 1785. * Ai both editions of Sir John... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1807 - 502 pàgines
...show. In mis'ry's darkest caverns known, His useful care was ever nigh ; Where hopeless anguish pour d his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die. No summons mock'd by chill delay ; No petty gain disdain'd by pride : The modest wants of ev'ry day The toil of ev'ry day supply'd. His virtues... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1807 - 498 pàgines
...mis'ry's darkest caverns known, His useful care was ever nigh ; Where hopeless anguish pour'd his gronn, And lonely want retir'd to die. No summons mock'd by chill delay ; No petty gain disdain'd by pride : The modest wants of ev'ry day The toil of ev'ry day supply'd. His virtues... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 pàgines
...remedy display'd The pow'r of art without the show. In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh, Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan,...to die. No summons mock'd by chill delay, No petty gain disdain'd by pride, The modest wants of ev'ry day The toil of ev'ry day supply'd. His virtues... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pàgines
...remedy display 'd The power of art without the show. In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh, Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die. No summons rnock'd by chill delay, No petty gain disdain'd by pride ; The modest wants of every day The toil of... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 pàgines
...remedy display'd The pout'r of art without the show, In MisYy's darkest cavern knnwn, His useful care was ever nigh, Where hopeless Anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely Want retir'd to die. How boldly painted, how exquisitely pathetic, as a description of the sufferings of human life, is... | |
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The power of art without the show. In misery's darkest caverns known, His useful care was ever nigh, Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die. 
