 | John Bell - 1789 - 442 strani
...man revers'd 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 raise the tardy bust.... | |
 | William Mudford - 1802 - 166 strani
...shade ; Yet hope not life from grief or danger free, Nor think the doom of man revers'd for thee ; Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And...ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. See nations, slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 238 strani
...the doom of man revers'd for thee : Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning, 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 raise the tardy bust.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 strani
...one of the couplets upon the vanity of wishes even for literary distinction stood thus: " Yet think what ills the scholar's life assail, " Toil, envy, want, the garret, and the jail." But after experiencing the uneasiness which Lord Chesterfield's fallacious patronage made him feel,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 strani
...of literary 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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 strani
...of literary 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... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 strani
...man revers'd for thee : Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And panse 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 raise the tardy bust.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 strani
...man revers'd 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.... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 strani
...for llioc : Deign on the p;i lag world to turn thine e\es, And pause a while from Irr.irning, to l>e nss, Timprove those charms.and keep them in repair, Forwiiichthcspoiler tlic patron, and the jail. See nations slowly wise, and meanly just. To buried merit raise the tardy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - 250 strani
...man revers'd 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 raise the tardy bust.... | |
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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. 
