 | Pacing - 1850 - 84 lapas
...futurity will, doubtless, not leave wanting in statues. Turn to the tearful, troubled, touching past ; " 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 raise the tardy bust : If dreams yet... | |
 | William Wetmore Story - 1851 - 696 lapas
...prejudice almost denies to a great scholar the right to be eminent as a jurist. Dr. Johnhas said,— ' And mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron and the gaol.' " None of these were the evils of our friend. His only evil was, that his reputation as a lawyer was... | |
 | 1851 - 626 lapas
...and why are they called "supple?" What is patriot used for? Wbat questions should they ask ? .'J5. " 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 raise the tardy bust." Did Johnson... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 lapas
...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 raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet... | |
 | Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott - 1852 - 574 lapas
...3rd, 1646. The society of New College have marked the spot, near the south window of the choir. "Then 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 raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 272 lapas
...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... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - 1855 - 438 lapas
...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... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 lapas
...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.... | |
 | Henry Howard M. Herbert (4th earl of Carnarvon.) - 1856 - 62 lapas
...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... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 lapas
...: Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from learning, to be wise : Tbero 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 raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet... | |
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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. 
