...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...the jail. See nations, slowly wise and meanly just, T" buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet Batter, once again attend, Hear Lydiafs life, and...

...for tbee : Deign on the passing vrorld 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 jar!. See nations, slowly wise and meanly just, Tn buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet...

...should pass under it: but the study was taken down some years since, and left the traditiuu harmless. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil,...meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end 4. Nor deem, when Learning...

...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,...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 Learning...

...other. In his Poem, entitled "Vanity of human wishes," a Couplet was altered ; it now stands thus, "There mark what. ills the Scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the Patron, and the Jail." And in his Dictionary this definition follows that ill-starred word, "Patron, Commonly a wretch who...

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...their impartiality in judgment ; as if we wished always to deserve the reproof of our satirist, " That nations slowly wise and meanly just To buried merit raise the/ tardy bust." For the not inferior but living names of Eichhorn and Paulus, our libraries have not a vacancy, nor...