 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...for thee : Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to he wise ; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil,...flatter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's life, and Galdeo's end. Nor deem, when Learning her last prize bestows, The glittering eminence exempt from woes... | |
 | Paul Theroux - Literary Collections - 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... | |
 | Kristina Straub - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 260 pages
...below him: 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. [VHW 157-60] In addition to these material "Ills," the scholar must also accept obscurity. Recognition... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 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... | |
 | Richard Jenkyns - Europe - 1992 - 526 pages
...experience: 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,...again attend. Hear Lydiat's Life, and Galileo's End. A different attitude to Roman models is illustrated by Charles Churchill (1732-64). Like Johnson, he... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 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.... | |
 | David McKitterick - Education - 1992 - 556 pages
...the world. 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.56 The difficulty for authors, whether at Cambridge or elsewhere, lay in discovering the requisite... | |
 | J. C. D. Clark - Biography & Autobiography - 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 - Drama - 1996 - 274 pages
...granted, saying, 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. Was the recognition that Two had offered worth considering? It certainly wouldn't be recognition of... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 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... | |
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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. 
