...he would soften the terrible lines which he wrote under the sting of Lord Chesterfield's neglect ? ' There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, — Toil, envy, want, the patron and the jail.' " To substitute publisher for patron would spoil the metre. Would it much affect the sense ? The publisher...

...the doom of man revers'd for thee : Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise ; There mark what ills the...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...

...the doom of man revers'd for thee : Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise ; There mark what ills the...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...

...so cross about Lord Chesterfield's cold shoulder that he rewrote his imitation of Juvenal, Yet think what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the Patron, and the jail. Mr Whitaker is very good on the paradoxes of philanthropy, and on the numerous motives that impel the...

...scholar his homeless despondency. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, poet, philosopher There mark what ills the scholar's life assail: Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the gaol. Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer Of making many books there is no...

...be properly presented to the world. Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the...life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.56 The difficulty for authors, whether at Cambridge or elsewhere, lay in discovering the requisite...

...Through all his veins the fever of renown Burns from the strong contagion of the gown; (1. 135-138) 18 ise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. (1. 17-20) 135 A perfect Woman, nobly planned, (1. 159-160) 19 He left the name, at which the worldgrew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. (1....

...Johnson thanked him for 'your regard to learning'.15 In The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), Johnson wrote: There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the garret, and the jaiL Attention has focused on the second line, where in the 1755 edition of the poem...

...taken so much for granted, saying, Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters to be wise; There mark what ills the...assail. Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. Was the recognition that Two had offered worth considering? It certainly wouldn't be recognition of...

...experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind." 6 There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the gaol. SAMUEL JOHNSON, (1709-1784) British author, lexicographer. The Vanity of Human Wishes, I. 1 59-60...