 | President of a college - 1836 - 156 sivua
...yon old mansion | frowning through the trees, Whose hollow turret | woo« the whistling breeze." " Remark each anxious toil, | each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes | of crowded life." Q,. When is the harmony of verse impaired? A. When the ceesural pause happens nearer the beginning... | |
 | Juvenal - 1837 - 306 sivua
...more exert his rage, Thy satire point, and animate thy page. SATIRE X. THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES. LET observation with extensive view Survey mankind from...life: Then say how hope and fear, desire and hate, 5 O'erspread with snares the clouded maze of fate, Where wav'ring man betray'd by vent'rous pride To... | |
 | 1838 - 1050 sivua
...exhibit his peculiar style of versification, which is much less known than his prose compositions. " Let observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind,...O'erspread with snares the clouded maze of fate. Where wav'ring man. hetray'd by vent'rous pride To tread the dreary paths without a guide. As Ireach'rous... | |
 | 1840 - 378 sivua
...soul the nearest way. THK VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES, IN IMITATION OF THI TENTH SATIRE Of JUVENAL. LET observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind from...O'erspread with snares the clouded maze of fate, Where wav'ring man, betray'd by vent'rous pride, To choose the dreary paths without a guide, As treach'rous... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 352 sivua
...of Doctor Johnson's, places the unaffected force and freedom of the former in a striking light. Let observation with extensive view Survey mankind from...watch the busy scenes of crowded life ; Then say, &c. Listen to Glorious John Dryden, and compare his directness with the pompous pleonasms of the author... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 376 sivua
...of Doctor Johnson's, places the unaffected force and freedom of the former in a striking light. Let observation with extensive view Survey mankind from...watch the busy scenes of crowded life ; Then say, &c. Listen to Glorious John Dryden, and compare his directness with the pompous pleonasms of the author... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 sivua
...of Doctor Johnson's, places the unaffected force and freedom of the former in a striking light. Let observation with extensive view Survey mankind from...watch the busy scenes of crowded life ; Then say, &c. Listen to Glorious John Dryden, and compare his directness with the pompous pleonasms of the author... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 sivua
...Lane, and his lines ou the death of Levett, are in his best manner. [From the Vanity of Human W Let , though they discovered her sorrows, were never able...on cushions which her maids brought her; and her betrayed by venturous prido, To tread the dreary paths without a guide ; As treacherous phantoms in... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 sivua
...Vanity of Human Let observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru ; Remark euch obert Chambers < i'ersprcad with snares the clouded maze of fate, Where wavering man, betrayed by venturous pride,... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1844 - 372 sivua
...Mark yon old mansion | frowning through the trees, Whose hollow turret | woos the whistling breeze." " Remark each anxious toil, | each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes | of crowded life." Q, When is the harmony of verse impaired ? A. When the caesural pause happens nearer the beginning... | |
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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... 
