...modest wisdom, therefore, never aims To find the longimde, or burn the Thames. Dr. Woleofs Peter Pindar. Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And...from letters to be wise ; There mark what ills the seholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail ; See nations slowly wise and meanly...

...reversed for thee : Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning, to be wise ; There mark what ills the scholar's life...assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. 160 See nations, slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet...

...world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters to be wise ; There mark what ills the seholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail ; See nations slowly wise and meanly j ist, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. Dr. Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes. Au reste, (as we...

...they only add new names to the long catalogue of those who illustrate the vanity of human wishes — "See nations slowly wise and meanly just, To buried merit, raise the tardy bust." To Dr. Drake, the company of statesmen only afforded a new opportunity for his observation on human...

...Wishes. Line 1. Let observation with extensive view Survey mankind, from China to Peru.* Line 159. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, — Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. Line 221. He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. Line 257....

...thorny the road to knowledge had been in his day. He would never have written those lines, — " Then mark what ills the scholar's life assail ; Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the gaol," — had he not acutely remembered the bitter experience of his early career. But whilst he admired...

...shall we say of the last days of Richard Brinsley Sheridan ? Alas ! all nations can testify, " How nations, slowly wise and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust." (Cheers.) Who was it erected a monument to Robert Ferguson many years after his death ? Why, a brother...

...they only add new names to the long catalogue of those who illustrate the vanity of human wishes — " See nations slowly wise and meanly just, To buried merit, raise the tardy bust." To Dr. Drake, the company of statesmen only afforded a new opportunity for his observation on human...

...within twenty-four hours, I have seen symptoms of that repentance which Johnson describes : " When nations, slowly wise and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust." 43 that they will be glad, when the world doubts whether they have any life left, to say, " Did not...

...we all know Johnson's opinion of that personage, and indeed of the rewards attendant upon letters : Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from learning to be wise. There mark what ilia the scholar's life oseail, Toil, envy, want, the patron,...