 | John Bell - English poetry - 1789 - 428 pages
...shade ; . Yet hope not life from grief or danger free, Nor think the doom of man revers'd for thee: Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes,^. 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... | |
 | William Mudford - 1802 - 166 pages
...shade ; Yet hope not life from grief or danger free, Nor think the doom of man revers'd for thee ; Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from learning to be wise ; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 328 pages
...thy shade; Yet hope not life from grief or danger free, Nor think the doom of man revers'd for thee : Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And...from Letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholars life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the gaol. See nations, slowly wise and meanly... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 350 pages
...thy shade j Yet hope nor life from grief or danger free, Nor think the doom of man revers'd for thee: Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes. And pause awhile from Letters, to be wise ; • Ver. 108— 113. -f- Ver. 114— rijz. J There is a tradition, that the study of friar Bacon,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 pages
...shade ; Yet hope nor life from grief or danger free, Nor think the doom of man revers'd for thee ; Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And...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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1809 - 530 pages
...of literary 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
...of literary 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... | |
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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. 
