 ... 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
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - English literature - 1892 - 220 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." The last line of manuscript that Sir Walter Scott sent to press, the line with which he closed his... | |
 | Louis Du Pont Syle - English poetry - 1894 - 488 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, 165 The glitt'ring eminence exempt from foes : See, when the vulgar 'scape, despis'd... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1894 - 688 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." The poem brought him little besides a growing reputation. A few days after the publication of the "Vanity... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 432 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. Nor deem, when learning her last prize bestows, The glitt'ring eminence exempt from foes ; See when the vulgar 'scapes, despised... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 442 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. If this be not poetry, may the name perish ! In another style, the stanzas on the young heir's majority... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1899 - 822 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." The poem brought him little besides a growing reputation. A few days after the publication of the "... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - Latin literature - 1900 - 332 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. Garrick pronounced Johnson's poem " as hard as Greek.' It certainly is not very easy reading. The passage... | |
 | R. McWilliam - English literature - 1900 - 834 pages
...Patron, arid 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 laboured chiefly for Cave, the publisher of the ' Gentleman's Magazine,' and did all kinds... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - English literature - 1902 - 346 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.' If this be not poetry, may the name perish ! In another style, the stanzas on the young heir's majority... | |
 | John N. Crawford - Authors, English - 1903 - 442 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 originally wrote the fourth of the above lines: Toil, envy, want, the garret and the jail.... | |
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