...HUMAN WISHES.1 AllRIDGED. LET observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru ;2 Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch...snares the clouded maze of fate, Where wavering man, betrayed by venturous pride, To tread the dreary paths without a guide, As treacherous phantoms in...

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...234.— THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES. S. JOHNSON. [IN IMITATION OF THE TENTH SATIRE OF JUVENAL.] LET observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind,...O'erspread with snares the clouded maze of fate, Where wav'ring man, betray 'd by vent'rous pride To tread the dreary paths without a guide, As treach'rous...

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...head alone remained to tell The cruel death he died. COWPER. CHAPTER XXIX. VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES. LET observation, with extensive view, Survey Mankind,...pride, To tread the dreary paths without a guide, As treach'rous phantoms in the mist delude, Shuns fancied ills, or chases airy good. How rarely reason...

...and his lines on the death of Lcvctt, are in his best manner. [From the Vanity of Human Wielta.] Let observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind,...strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life ; Then вау how hope and fear, desire and hate, O'erepread with snares the clouded maze of fate, Where wavering...

...retirement, I am going to die within the walls of Bagdat." IN DOTATION OP THE TENTH SATIRE OP JUVENAL. LET observation with extensive view Survey mankind from...snares the clouded maze of fate, Where wavering man, betray 'd by venturous pride To tread the dreary paths without a guide, As treacherous phantoms in...

...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...

...acknowledged vigour. r An example presents itself at the very opening of " The Vanity of Human Wishes." " Let observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind from...O'erspread with snares the clouded maze of fate." The first line, it may be noted by the way, is a remarkable example of that verbal amplification which...

...and animate thy page. THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES. IN IMITATION OF THE TENTH SATIRE OF JUVENAL. LET Observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind from...hate, O'erspread with snares the clouded maze of fate, 1 ' The king : ' the nation was discontented at the visits made by the king to Hanover. Where wavering...