 | 1860 - 68 Seiten
...within twenty-four hours, I have seen symptoms of that repentance which Johnson describes : " When nations, slowly wise and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust." 43 that they will be glad, when the world doubts whether they have any life left, to say, " Did not... | |
 | 1860 - 544 Seiten
...worn lines: " Mark what Ills the scholar's life assail Toil, envy, want, tho patron, aud tho jail. Sec nations slowly wise, and meanly just To buried merit raise the tardy bunt." and, in the case of Burns, we fail to see the application. Tho government of the day recognised... | |
 | 1862 - 542 Seiten
...— in the same vigorous poem, we may well say in the words of Johnson himself in the same poem — " See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. It is indeed astonishing, when we consider how much Johnson read in the course of his long life —... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1862 - 566 Seiten
...— in the same vigorous poem, we may well say in the words of Johnson himself in the same poem — " See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. It is indeed astonishing, when we consider how much Johnson read in the course of his long life —... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 Seiten
...piece of ignorance in office ! BEAUMONT and FLETCHER. — The Eldar Brother, Act II. Scene 1. ILLS. — Mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. Da. JOHNSON. — Vanity of Human Wishes, Line 150. What ills from beanty spring. DR. JOHNSON. — Ibid.... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 Seiten
...VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES. Let observation with extensive view Survey mankind, from China to Peru. Line 1. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, — Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. Line 159. He left a name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. Line 221.... | |
 | Henry Riddell Montgomery - 1865 - 476 Seiten
...KINDLY ACCORDED, BY HIS LORDSHIP'S OBLIGED AND VERY OBEDIENT HUMBLE SERVANT, THE AUTHOR. PREFACE. " See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust." — JOHNSON. THE present work is something of an experiment. It is an attempt to reproduce in some... | |
 | Henry Riddell Montgomery - 1865 - 476 Seiten
...FAVOUR SO KINDLY ACCORDED, BY HIS LORDSHIP'S OBLIGED AND VERY OBEDIENT HUMBLE SERVANT, I PEEFACE. " See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust." —JOHNSON. THE present work is something of an experiment. It is an attempt to reproduce in some form,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 Seiten
...philosopher. " Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to he wise ; y altered it to the patron, and the If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Hear Lydiafs life, and Galileo's end." I cannot forbear adding,... | |
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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. 
