 | Æneas James G. Mackay - 1873 - Страниц: 362
...the personal beauty which made his son the Master, and his grandson the 1 Vindication, p. 9. * " When nations, slowly wise and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bast." Yet silence is better than the babble of those who, pretending to honour the dead, seek to glorify... | |
 | Octavius Brooks Frothingham - 1874 - Страниц: 612
...within twentyfour hours, I have seen symptoms of that repentance which Johnson describes : — ' When nations, slowly wise and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust.' " The men who held their garments aside, and desired to have no contact with Music Hall, are beginning... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1874 - Страниц: 544
...Congress voted to raise a monument to his memory. It was never erected, and we are left to reflect " How nations slowly wise and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust." General Knox, the bosom friend of Greene, said to a distinguished son of Carolina : — " His knowledge... | |
 | Edward Walford - 1875 - Страниц: 196
...wise ; 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 flatter, once again attend, Hear Lycliat's life, and Galileo's end." , We can hardly resist the... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - Страниц: 794
...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. DR. JOHNSON: Vanity of Human Wiikes. A little learning is a dangerous thing ! Drink deep, or taste... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1876 - Страниц: 76
...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, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end. Nor deem, when Learning her... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1876 - Страниц: 476
...voted to raise a monument to his memory. It was never erected, and we are left to reflect " ! l"v, nations slowly wise and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust." General Knox, the bosom friend of Greene, said to a distinguished son of Carolina : — " His knowledge... | |
 | 1878 - Страниц: 446
...There mark what ills the scholar's life assail— Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. t VI. See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet natter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end. Nor deem, when learning her last... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - Страниц: 788
...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. DR. JOHNSON: Vanity of Human Irishes. A little learning is a dangerous thing! Drink deep, or taste... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1878 - Страниц: 482
...sleep than to die. Johnson, following in the wake of the Roman satirist, indignantly proclaims — ' See nations, slowly wise and meanly just, To buried Merit raise the tardy bust.' Lord Lansdowne's contemporaries are not open to this reproach. On his retirement from public life,... | |
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See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end. 
