 | Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 396 oldal
...insolence, and is paid with flattery" — and the famous revision in The Vanity of Human Wishes — "There mark what Ills the Scholar's Life assail, /Toil, Envy, Want, the Patron, and the Jail."37 Evidently Johnson likes to ventilate his revenge. Yet his satirical hits also seem to assume... | |
 | Emerson R. Marks - 1998 - 428 oldal
...more meaning than ten of prose. A few pages later he quotes from Johnson's "Vanity of Human Wishes," See nations slowly wise and meanly just To buried merit raise the tardy bust, observing that "slowly wise" and "meanly just" "summarize long observation." Pound's position in the... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 772 oldal
...help.74 - and the significant substitution when Johnson revised The Vanity of Human Wishes in 1749: There mark what ills the scholar's life assail. Toil, envy, want, the Patron, and the jail. (The line had originally indicted not the patron but 'the garret'.)75 While Tory wits mourned the demise... | |
 | John Carrington - 2003 - 344 oldal
...ambition: Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron and the jail. In the first edition the word "patron" had been "gibbet". Johnson made the alteration feelingly. Years... | |
 | Steven N. Zwicker - 2004 - 322 oldal
...(Chicago, 1989), pp. 111-13. 196 COURTING AND COMPLYING WITH DANGER II JOHN BARNARD Dryden and patronage There mark what Ills the Scholar's Life assail, Toil, Envy, Want, the Patron, and the Jail.' Dr. Johnson's scornful equation of imprisonment and dependence on a patron ("Commonly a wretch who... | |
 | Frank L. Holt - 2005 - 272 oldal
...Callisthenes: Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.2'' When the tumultuous spring had passed, the king ordered ten thousand infantry and thirty-five... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 2006 - 553 oldal
...dollars. At forty he published " The Vanity of Human Wishes," in which were these lines : — "Then mark what ills the scholar's life assail; Toil, envy, want, the patron and the 1ail." When asked how he felt about his failures, he replied : "Like a monument," — that is, steadfast,... | |
 | 124 oldal
...not commonly been great scholars, nor great scholars great men. - Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. - Samuel Johnson He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading;... | |
 | William Kupersmith - 2007 - 280 oldal
...can only make guesses concerning why they were made. Even the most famous revision, the change from "There mark what Ills the Scholar's Life assail, / Toil, Envy, Want, the Garret, and the Jail" to "the Patron, and the Jail" may not simply be a response to Lord Chesterfield's... | |
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Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. 
