 ... 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...  The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by ... - Page 23by English poets - 1790Full view - About this book
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1903 - 218 pages
...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... | |
 | Stephen Lucius Gwynn - 1904 - 452 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1905 - 502 pages
...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. In the original, the subject matter of this paragraph is the vanity of the fame of eloquence, and the... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1906 - 764 pages
...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." 280. Drama of " Irene." — The poem brought him little besides a growing reputation. A few days after... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 506 pages
...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 - 528 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | 1922 - 1396 pages
...which, though exaggerated, furnished Dr. Johnson with an allusion in the ' Vanity of Human Wishes ' : If dreams yet flatter, once again attend; Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end.' According to the ' Biographia Britannica ' (note to Ussher) Lydiat married Ussher's sist«jr, the date... | |
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