...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...

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...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...

...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 awhile from learning, to be wise : There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron,...

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...odimus, sublatam ex oculis quaerimus invidi." That we are no longer to be ranked among the nations who, " Slowly wise and meanly just " To buried merit raise the tardy bust." hoped that the public would encourage warmly the exhibition of numbers of fine paintings of one artist;...

...and why are they called " supple?" What is patriot used for ? What questions should they ask? 35. " There mark what ills the Scholar's life assail, Toil,...meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust." Did Johnson experience any of the " ills" he names ? Why does he complain of nations being "slowly"...