 ... 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...  Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces - Pagina 316door Samuel Johnson - 1774Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Augustine Birrell - 1902 - 346 pagina’s
...patron and the gaol. 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.' If this be not poetry, may the name perish ! In another style, the stanzas on the young heir's majority... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1903 - 218 pagina’s
...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. — JOHNSON. The groves of Eden, vanished now so long, Live in description, and look green in song... | |
 | John N. Crawford - 1903 - 442 pagina’s
...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. Johnson originally wrote the fourth of the above lines: Toil, envy, want, the garret and the jail.... | |
 | Stephen Lucius Gwynn - 1904 - 452 pagina’s
...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. It will be observed that Johnson, like so many other prose writers, made his ddbut as a poet. The capital... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1905 - 770 pagina’s
...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." 28o. Drama of " Irene." — The poem brought him little besides a growing reputation. A few days after... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 528 pagina’s
...patron, and the gaol. 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 Learning her last prize bestows, 165 The glittering eminence exempt from foes; See, when the vulgar 'scapes, despised... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 506 pagina’s
...patron, and the gaol. 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 Learning her last prize bestows, 165 The glittering eminence exempt from foes; See, when the vulgar 'scapes, despised... | |
 | Samuel Fletcher Hulton - 1909 - 480 pagina’s
...Patron and the Gaol : 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 Learning her last prize bestows, The glittering eminence exempt from Foes ; See, when the Vulgar 'scapes, despised... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - 1911 - 792 pagina’s
...patron, and the jail. 160 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 Learning her last prize bestows, The glitt'ring eminence exempt from foes ; See, when the vulgar 'scape, despis'd... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon, Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - 1911 - 792 pagina’s
...nations, slowly wise and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet flatter, oncq again attend, Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end. Nor deem, when Learning her last prize bestows, The glitt'ring eminence exempt from foes ; See, when the vulgar 'scape, despis'd... | |
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