 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pagina’s
...undiscover'd shore ? No secret island in the boundless main .' No peaceful desert yet uncla'ui.'d by Spain? es " How, when competitors like these contend, Can surly Virtue hope to find a friend?" " This mournful... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 pagina’s
...Mun.iy, Alh™.irlr No secret island in the boundless main ! No peaceful desert yet uuclaim'd by Spain ? Quick let us rise, the happy seats explore, And bear...more. This mournful truth is every where confess'd, Siotv rises worth, by poverty depress "d." 583. "Vanity of Human Wishes." The " Vanity of Human Wishes,"... | |
 | Juvenal - 1837 - 306 pagina’s
...undiscover'd shore ? No secret island in the boundless main ? No peaceful desert yet unclaim'd by Spain ? Quick let us .rise, the happy seats explore, And bear oppression's insolence no more. 175 But hark! the affrighted crowd's tumultuous cries Roll through the streets, and thunder to the... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1842 - 546 pagina’s
...eighty-fifth year.] No secret island in the boundless main! No peaceful desert yet unclaim'd by Spain? Quick let us rise, the happy seats explore, And bear...oppression's insolence no more. This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd, Slow rises worth, by poverty depress'd." 583. "Vanity of Human Wishes" The "... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1842 - 544 pagina’s
...eighty-fifth year.] No secret island in the boundless main! No peaceful desert yet unclaim'd by Spain? Quick let us rise, the happy seats explore, And bear oppression's insolence no more. This mournlul truth is everywhere confess'd, Slow rises worlh, by poverty depress'd." 583. "Vanity of Human... | |
 | 1897 - 918 pagina’s
...hated poverty. This mournful truth is everywhere confessed — Slow rises worth by poverty depressed; But here more slow, where all are slaves to gold, Where looks are merchandise, and smiles are sold. In his final summary, Mr. Booth concludes that about thirty per cent, of the population must be classed... | |
 | 1853 - 730 pagina’s
...This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, Slow rises worth hy poverty depressed, But here [London] more slow where all are slaves to gold, Where looks are merchandise and smiles are sold. Yet he worked his way to an honourable position and an imperishable fame without losing the nobler... | |
 | George Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton - 1845 - 444 pagina’s
...undiscovered shore, No secret island in the boundless main, No peaceful desert, yet unclaimed by Spain. Quick, let us rise, the happy seats explore, And bear Oppression's insolence no more. He was one of those who lived to recant his errors on this subject. Many years afterwards, when he... | |
 | 1851 - 496 pagina’s
...island in the boundless main? No peaceful desert yet unclaim'd by Spain? Quick let us rise, the happj- seats explore, And bear oppression's insolence no more. This mournful truth is everywhere eonfess'd, Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd : But here more slow, where all are slaves... | |
 | William Jerdan - 1852 - 518 pagina’s
...rigid law pursues, This, only this, provokes the snarling muse — This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd, Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd :...Where looks are merchandise, and smiles are sold. JOHNSON'S London. ABOUT this time I became acquainted with Mr. Coleridge, who was then residing with... | |
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Has heaven reserv'd, in pity to the poor, No pathless waste, or undiscover'd shore; No secret island in the boundless main? No peaceful desert yet unclaim'd by SPAIN? Quick let us rise, the happy seats explore, And bear oppression's insolence no more. 
