 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 350 pages
...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...for thee : Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And panse awhile from letters, to be wise ; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil,...and Galileo's end. Nor deem, when Learning her last priae bestows, The glittering eminence exempt from woes; See when the vulgar 'scape, despts'd or aw'd,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...from Irr.irning, to l>e wise : There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, tlic thee not? Foul feeder! Coarse fare and carrion please...thee full as well, And leave as keen a relish on t dreains yet Halter, once again attend, Urar Lydiat's life §, and Galileo's end. Nordeem.when Learning... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1809 - 530 pages
...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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 520 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 pages
...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 gaol. See nations, slowly wise and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 648 pages
...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,...the jail. See nations, slowly wise and meanly just, T" buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet Batter, once again attend, Hear Lydiafs life, and... | |
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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. 
