 | Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1758 - 384 pages
...patron, and the jail. See nations flowly wife, and meanly juft, To buried merit raife the tardy buft. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Here Lydiat's...life, and Galileo's end. Nor deem, when Learning her laft prize beftows, The glitt'ring eminence exempt frdm woes ; See when the vulgar 'fcape, defpis'd... | |
 | Collection - 1758 - 394 pages
...patron, and the jail. See nations flowly wife, and meanly juft, To buried merit raife the tardy buft. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Here Lydiat's...life, and Galileo's end. Nor deem, when Learning her laft prize beftows, The glitt'ring eminence exempt from woes ; See when the vulgar''fcape, defpis'd... | |
 | English poetry - 1789 - 228 pages
...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...tardy bust. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end. Nor deem, when Learning her last prize bestows, The glitt'ring... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1789 - 428 pages
...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... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1789 - 442 pages
...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 Learning her last prize besto*s, The glitt'ring eminence exempt from woes; See when the vulgar 'scape, despis'dor aw'd, Rebellion's... | |
 | William Mudford - 1802 - 166 pages
...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...tardy bust. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's life and Galileo's end, Nor deem, when learning her last prize bestows, The glittering... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1805 - 238 pages
...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...tardy bust. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end. Nor deem, when learning her last prize bestows, The glitt'ring... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1806 - 788 pages
...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 James Edward Smith - 1807 - 416 pages
...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... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - Europe, Northern - 1807 - 470 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
