 THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES, IN IMITATION OF THE TENTH SATIRE OF JUVENAL. LET* Observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru ; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life^ Then say how hope...  Letters and Essays in Prose and Verse - 33. lappuseautors: Richard Sharp - 1834 - 268 lapasPilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 lapas
...cries Surmount the skies : Thus think, and smoke tobacco. AlCOMTJIOUi. banitg of tjummi IN IMITATION OP THE TENTH SATIRE OF JUVENAL. LET observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru ; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life: Then say... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1890 - 474 lapas
...instances of desperate tautology, the author quotes the well-known lines from the Doctor's imitation of Juvenal — " Let observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru," and contends with some reason that this is saying in effect, — "Let observation with extensive observation... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1893 - 294 lapas
...instances of desperate tautology, the author quotes the well-known lines from the Doctor's imitation of Juvenal — " Let observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru," and contends with some reason that this is saying in effect, — " Let observation with extensive observation... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey, David Masson - 1897 - 472 lapas
...instances of desperate tautology, the author quotes the well-known lines from the Doctor's imitation of Juvenal — " Let observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru," and contends with some reason that this is saying in effect, — "Let observation with extensive observation... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1839 - 808 lapas
...altogether Inert and powerless under his accumulated sufferings." — Sia WAITI* SCOTT.] > ['• There Is an offence against simplicity which should be shunned...occurs often In Johnson, and though the abstract terms, aflected by him, give a kind of false pomp to the style, assuming the air of personification. He thus... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1901 - 1080 lapas
...blending, And beauty immortal awakes from the JAMES BKATTIK. THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES. IN IMITATION OP ve, Deeper than the depths beneath, Free and faithful, strong as death. " Thou shalt ; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life; Then say... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 lapas
...of merit; against such abuses he contended for the rest of his life. IDanfte of Ibuman TKHisbes IN IMITATION OF THE TENTH SATIRE OF JUVENAL LET Observation...extensive view Survey mankind, from China to Peru; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life; Then say how... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1909 - 278 lapas
...instances of desperate tautology, the author quotes the well-known lines from the Doctor's imitation of Juvenal — Let observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru ; and contends with some reason that this is saying in effect, — ' Let observation tvith extensive... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1893 - 292 lapas
...instances of desperate tautology, the author quotes the well-known lines from the Doctor's imitation of Juvenal — " Let observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru," and contends with some reason that this is saying in effect, — " Let observation with extensive observation... | |
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