 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 272 pagini
...OF HUMAN WISHES. IN IMITATION OF THE TENTH SATIRE OF JUVENAL. LET Observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru ; Remark each anxious...hate, O'erspread with snares the clouded maze of fate, 1 ' The king : ' the nation was discontented at the visits made by the king to Hanover. Where wavering... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1855 - 278 pagini
...of Human Wishes." " Let observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru ; Kemark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the...O'erspread with snares the clouded maze of fate." The first line, it may be noted by the way, is a remarkable example of that verbal amplification which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 276 pagini
...OF HUMAN WISHES. IN IMITATION OF THE TENTH SATIRE OF JUVENAL. LET Observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru ; Remark each anxious...scenes of crowded life ; Then say how hope and fear, desjrje and hate, Overspread with jsnares the clouded, maze of fate, i ' The king : ' the nation was... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 pagini
...S. Joirasos. [IN IMTTATIOH OF TH« TENTH SATinR OF JFVrMAT..] LET observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch tho busy scones of crowded life ; Then say how hope and fear, desire and hate, O'erspread with snares... | |
 | Choice poems - 1862 - 368 pagini
...Johnson. Born 1707. Died 1784. FROM THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES. LET observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru, Remark each anxious...O'erspread with snares the clouded maze of fate, Where wavering man, betrayed by venturous pride To tread the dreary paths without a guide, As treacherous... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pagini
...MILTON. — Paradise Lost, Book II. Line 408. OBSERVATION.— Let observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru ; Remark each anxious...strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life. DR. JOHNSON. — Vanity of Human Wishes, Line 1 . OBSERVE.— I do observe you now of late : I have... | |
 | 1865 - 496 pagini
...a people — intellectual culture. " Let observation with extensive view Survey mankind from India to Peru; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded liff ; Then say how hope and fear, desire and ba'e, O'erspread with snares the clouded maze of fate,... | |
 | Penny readings - 1866 - 264 pagini
...HUMAN WISHES. (ABRIDGED FOR RECITATION.) DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON. LET observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru ; Remark each anxious...O'erspread with snares the clouded maze of fate, Where wavering man, betrayed by venturous pride, To tread the dreary paths without a guide, As treacherous... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pagini
...observer's sake. Pope,MEi\\. Let observation, with extended view, Survey mankind from China to Peru ; Kcmark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life, Dr. Johnson, Vanity of Human Wishes, 1. OBSTINACY — see Fickleness. You may as well Forbid the sea... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1868 - 280 pagini
...OF HUMAN WISHES. IN IMITATION OP THE TENTH SATIRE OF JUVENAL. LET Observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru ; Remark each anxious...hate, O'erspread with snares the clouded maze of fate, if. ,*-" 26 JOHNSON'S POEMS. Where wavering man, betray'd by venturous pride, 7 To tread the dreary... | |
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LET observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru ; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life... 
