| Nathan Drake - English essays - 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... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 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... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 648 pages
...leUerM heart ; Should no disease thy torpid veins invade, Nor Melancholy's phantoms haunt thy shade; Yet hope not life from grief or danger free, Nor think...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 656 pages
...letter'd heart ; Should no disease thy torpid veins invade, Nor Melancholy's phantoms haunt thy shade; Yet hope not life from grief or danger free, Nor think 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 202 pages
...letter'd heart ; Should no Disease thy torpid veins invade, Nor Melancholy's phantoms haunt thy shade ; Yet hope not life from grief or danger free, Nor think...thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise ; 1 Earl of Stratford. * Earl of Clarendon. 5 There was a tradition, that the study nf Friar Bacon,... | |
| 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... | |
| Robert Anderson - Authors, English - 1815 - 660 pages
...cultivated genius and learned toil. " Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from letters, to be wise ; 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 506 pages
...Should no disease thy torpid veins invade, Nor Melancholy's phantoms haunt thy shade ; Yet hope nor life from grief or danger free, Nor think the doom...for thee : Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyesy And pause awhile from Letters, to be wise ; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil,... | |
| Lindley Murray - Authors - 1816 - 298 pages
...letter'd heart ; Should no difeafe thy torpid veins invade, Nor melancholy's phantoms haunt thy fhade ; Yet hope not life from grief or danger free, Nor think the doom of man revers'd for thee : Deign on the paffing world to turn thine eyes, And paufe a while from learning, to be wife ; There mark what ills... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1816 - 154 pages
...letter'd heart; Should no disease thy torpid veins invade, Nor melancholy's phantoms haunt thy shade — Yet hope not life from grief or danger free, Nor think the doom of man reversed for thee; Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning,... | |
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