 | 1789 - 228 pages
...the doom of 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...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... | |
 | John Bell - 1789 - 428 pages
...the doom of 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...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... | |
 | William Mudford - 1802 - 166 pages
...man revers'd for thee ; Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from learning to be wise ; There mark what ills the scholar's life...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 238 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 328 pages
...be wise; There mark what ills the scholars 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 flatter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's l(fe, and Galileo's end *. Nor deem, when Learning her last... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 350 pages
...so shocking anacciJen* it was pulled down many years since. THE VANITY OP HUMAN W1SHT.1. l6t Thcre mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the gaol. See natjons, slowly wise and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. Jt dreams yet... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1806 - 788 pages
...profound and unequalled IcaraIng of this Great Scholar Is now universally acknowledged, and at length Nations slowly wise and meanly just To buried merit raise the tardy bust. LIFE OF RICHARD BENTLEY, DD Late Regius Professor of Divinity, and Master of Trinity Cambridge, England.... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - 1807 - 470 pages
...afforded him an asylum. It reminds us of Dr. Johnson's h'nes, so often quoted on similar occasions. " See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust ! " , The collection of paintings in the royal Musseum, Musseum, is very large ; and though it consists... | |
 | sir James Edward Smith - 1807 - 416 pages
...medallion, and various other things rather too much in a heap. This should have been his epitaph : " See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, " To buried merit raise the tardy bust." Johnson's Panity of Human IVishet, ver. 159. Near the old chxirch stands the very house in which the... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...the doom of 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...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... | |
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See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. 
