 | 1860 - 544 pages
...worn lines: " Mark what Ills the scholar's life assail Toil, envy, want, tho patron, aud tho jail. Sec nations slowly wise, and meanly just To buried merit raise the tardy bunt." and, in the case of Burns, we fail to see the application. Tho government of the day recognised... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1862 - 566 pages
...— in the same vigorous poem, we may well say in the words of Johnson himself in the same poem — " See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. It is indeed astonishing, when we consider how much Johnson read in the course of his long life —... | |
 | 1862 - 542 pages
...— in the same vigorous poem, we may well say in the words of Johnson himself in the same poem — " See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. It is indeed astonishing, when we consider how much Johnson read in the course of his long life —... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...piece of ignorance in office ! BEAUMONT and FLETCHER. — The Eldar Brother, Act II. Scene 1. ILLS. — Mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. Da. JOHNSON. — Vanity of Human Wishes, Line 150. What ills from beanty spring. DR. JOHNSON. — Ibid.... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pages
...VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES. Let observation with extensive view Survey mankind, from China to Peru. Line 1. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, — Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. Line 159. He left a name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. Line 221.... | |
 | Henry Riddell Montgomery - 1865 - 476 pages
...KINDLY ACCORDED, BY HIS LORDSHIP'S OBLIGED AND VERY OBEDIENT HUMBLE SERVANT, THE AUTHOR. PREFACE. " See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust." — JOHNSON. THE present work is something of an experiment. It is an attempt to reproduce in some... | |
 | Henry Riddell Montgomery - 1865 - 476 pages
...FAVOUR SO KINDLY ACCORDED, BY HIS LORDSHIP'S OBLIGED AND VERY OBEDIENT HUMBLE SERVANT, I PEEFACE. " See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust." —JOHNSON. THE present work is something of an experiment. It is an attempt to reproduce in some form,... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pages
...Another writes because his father writ, And proves himself a bastard by his wit. AUTHOBS — continued. Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And...meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. Johnson,VHW 159. We that live to please, must please to live. Dr. Johnson, Prologue. Some write a narrative... | |
 | English poetry - 1867 - 336 pages
...shade ; 20 Yet hope not life from grief or danger free, Nor think the doom of man reversed for thee : Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And...; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, 25 Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pages
...who he was. Galileo was well chosen to exemplify the hard fate of a very illustrious philosopher. " 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, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.... | |
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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. 
