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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. "
The British Poets: Including Translations ... - Page 164
by British poets - 1822
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

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...
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Works, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 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...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...
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Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of ..., Volume 1

Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 pages
...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 on the Ai.ciBIADES...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical Illustrative of the ..., Volume 1

Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 pages
...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 on the ALGIBIADES...
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Elegant Extracts, Volumes 1-2

Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...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...
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Smart, Wilkie, P. Whitehead, Fawkes, Lovibond, Harte, Langhorne, Goldsmith ...

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 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...the jail. See nations, slowly wise and meanly just, T" buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet Batter, once again attend, Hear Lydiafs life, and...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 16

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 pages
...the doom of man revers'd for tbee : Deign on the passing vrorld to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters to be wise ; There mark what ills the...life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jar!. See nations, slowly wise and meanly just, Tn buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet...
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Hypocrisy: A Satire, in Three Books. Book the First

Charles Caleb Colton - 1812 - 294 pages
...other. In his Poem, entitled "Vanity of human wishes," a Couplet was altered ; it now stands thus, "There mark what. ills the Scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the Patron, and the Jail." And in his Dictionary this definition follows that ill-starred word, "Patron, Commonly a wretch who...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With Critical Observations on His Works

Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 pages
...at the inadequate recompence of cultivated genius and learned toil. " Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from letters, to...There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, efivy, want, the patron *, and the jail" On the 6th of February this year, his tragedy of Irene, which...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 506 pages
...the doom of man, revers'd for thee : Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyesy And pause awhile from Letters, to be wise ; There mark what ills the...life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the gaolh. See nations, slowly wise and meanly just, * There is at tradition, that the study of friar Bacon,...
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