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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. "
Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson - Page 79
by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 197 pages
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Bell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry: Vol. V.

English poetry - 1789 - 228 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...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 bestows,...
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Bell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry, Volumes 5-6

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...
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A Critical Enquiry Into the Moral Writings of Dr. Samuel Johnson: In which ...

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,...
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The Poetical Works ...: With the Life of the Author

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1805 - 238 pages
...revers'd for thee : Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning, to be wise ; There mark what ills the scholar's life...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 bestows,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

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...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

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,...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 3

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....
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A Tour 'round the Baltic: Thro' the Northern Countries of Europe ...

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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A sketch of a tour on the continuent in the years 1786 and 1787, Volume 1

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...
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Specimens of the British poets, Volume 2

British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...think the doom of man revers'd for thee : Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And panse awhile from letters, to be wise ; There mark what...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 priae bestows,...
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