 | 1789 - 228 pagini
...wise ; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried...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, The glitt'ring... | |
 | John Bell - 1789 - 442 pagini
...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 jail. See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet... | |
 | John Bell - 1789 - 428 pagini
...wise ; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. See nations slowly wise, 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 pagini
...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, and the jail. See nations, slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 238 pagini
...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 assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. See nations, slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1806 - 788 pagini
...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 pagini
...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 - 1807 - 470 pagini
...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 pagini
...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... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pagini
...wise : There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, tlic patron, and the jail. 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... | |
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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. 
