...impatient, told him abruptly to con over Johnson's 'Vanity of Human Wishes,' particularly the lines — There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail." Such was the lecture of a man of the world to a man of letters. The man of the world I shall have occasion...

...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 flatter,...

...for thee : 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, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. See nations, slowly wise and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet flatter,...

...Johnson, in his " Vanity of Human Wishes," where, speaking of unfortunate learned men, he says : — " There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the gaol. See nations, slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet...

...celebrated couplet, in which the words seem to fall like drops of blood from a lacerated heart : But ah ! what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron and the jail. To this source we may trace, in part, that personal element which glows so intensely in the lyric poetry...

...Johnson could do without Lord Chesterfield : could substitute in satire the patron for the garret — " There mark what ills the scholar's life assail ; Toil, envy, want, the patron and the gaol ;" could call Andrew Millar the bookseller, the Mecajnas of his day, and add a compliment that...

...out of Dr. Johnson. PHILIP. You mean that one in his "Vanity of Human Wishes," " There mark what ilia the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail." You might have instanced, too, his letter to Lord Chesterfield, though it be not in verse. But illJO...

...— Deign on the passing world to turn [bis] eyes, And pause awhile from letters to be wise, [Might] mark what ills the scholar's life assail — Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. Our great nation is rapidly becoming a community of readers ; and decided superiority, if it can make...

...thee : Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from learning, 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 flatter,...

...for thee : Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to he 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 flatter,...