...left a name, at which the world grew pale, To point a novel, or adorn a tale. Vanity of Bwnan Wishes. In life's last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave and follies of the wise ; From Marlborough's eyes the tears of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show. A. When Learning's...

...And bids afflicted worth retire to peace. But few there are whom hours like these bloom From Lyclia's lay him low, In the clover or the snow ! What cares...know: Lay him low ! Fold him in his country's stars, Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show! The teeming...

...Till pitying nature signs the last release, And bids afflicted worth retire to peace. Ib. Van. HW 305. In life's last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise ! From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show. lb. VHW 315....

...Different again is the savagely particular illustration of generalizations concerning "life's last scene"; In life's last scene what prodigies surprise; Fears...dotage flow, And Swift expires a driv'ler and a show. Another kind of effect is the combination of mournfulness and fierce contempt in Now Beauty falls betrayed,...

...unclouded in the gulfs of Fate. From Lydia's monarch should the search descend, By Solon cautioned to regard his end, In life's last scene what prodigies...Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise! From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveler and a show. The teeming...

...as dire examples in his satire, On the Vanity of Human Wishes, had no such scruples when he wrote: From Marlb'rough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driv'ler and a show. The poems which Swift wrote both coming to and going from Ireland and when he retired here finally are...

...it at all adventures; it is sure to lead him out of his way and sure to engulf him in the mire. (b) In life's last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise? From Mar lb' rough's eyes the streams of dotage flow. And Swift expires a driv'ler and a show. (c) The box...

...the vainest wishes. The rivalry reaches a standoff in a devastating couplet that returns to Swift, "From Marlb'rough's Eyes the Streams of Dotage flow, /And Swift expires a Driv'ler and a Show" (317-318), where two antagonists finally join in "Life's last Scene."9 But much of the rest of the...

...piece. "Johnson's own version of these lines in The Vanity of Human Wishes is, I think, less happy: "From Lydia's Monarch should the Search descend, /...surprise, / Fears of the Brave, and Follies of the Wise?" (lines 313-16). Johnson is much more cogent in Ramblerno. 21, where the advice "to defer to the end...

...train of melancholy refections on the miserable state of our mortal being: * la life's last scenes, what prodigies surprise! Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise. Rom Mariborough's eyes the streams of dotage 2ow, And Swift expires a drivler and a show.' "Such is...