 There none are swept by sudden fate away, But all whom hunger spares with age decay: Here malice, rapine, accident, conspire, And now a rabble rages, now a fire; Their ambush here relentless ruffians lay, 15 And here the fell attorney prowls for prey;...  Bell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry - 36 ページJohn Bell 著 - 1789全文表示 - この書籍について
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 438 ページ
..." For who would leave, unbrib'd, Hibernia's land T Or change the rocks of Scotland for the Strand ? There none are swept by sudden fate away ; But all, whom hunger spares, with age decay." " The truth is, like the ancient Greeks and Romans, he allowed himself to look upon all nations but... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1924 - 562 ページ
...For who would leave, unbrib'd, Hibcrnia's land ? ' Or change the rocks of Scotland for the Strand ? ' There none are swept by sudden fate away ; ' But all, whom hunger spares, with age decay.' The truth is, like the ancient Greeks and Romans, he allowed himself to look upon all nations but his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1928 - 564 ページ
...unbrib'd, Hibernia's land, Or change the rocks of Scotland for the Strand? 10 There none are swept fiy sudden fate away, But all whom hunger spares with...a fire; Their ambush here relentless ruffians lay, 15 And here the fell attorney prowls for prey; Here falling houses thunder on your head, And here a... | |
 | William Henry Irving - 1928 - 508 ページ
...preference: For who wou'd leave, unbrib'd, Hibernia's land, Or change the rocks of Scotland for the Strand ? There none are swept by sudden fate away, But all whom hunger spares, with age decay. From the time of James I down, London had been the happy hunting ground for needy Scotchmen. We know... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 ページ
...to the modern urban dweller, who also understands that "Slow rises Worth, by Poverty deprest" (177): Here Malice, Rapine, Accident, conspire, And now a...Ruffians lay, And here the fell Attorney prowls for Prey. (13-16) Such lines also make clear that Johnson figuratively embodies his empiricism. Personification... | |
 | Kevin Hart - 1999 - 254 ページ
...administration: For who would leave, unbrib'd, Hibernia's land, Or change the rocks of Scotland for the Strand? There none are swept by sudden fate away, But all whom hunger spares, with age decay. (Yale, v1, 48) Ten years later, in 1748, one can see a quite different sensibility responding to the... | |
 | Peter Clark, David Michael Palliser, Martin J. Daunton - 2000 - 980 ページ
...survival: For who would leave, unbnbed. Hiberma's land, Or change the rocks of Scotland for the Strand? There none are swept by sudden fate away, But all whom hunger spares,with age decay: Here malice, rapine, accident, conspire, And now a rabble rages, now a fire;... | |
 | N. H. Buck - 2002 - 428 ページ
...London For who would leave unbcib'd, Hibemia's land, Or change the rocks of Scotland for the Strand7 There none are swept by sudden fate away. But all...ambush here relentless ruffians lay. And here the fell attomey prowls for prey; Samuel Johnson, London: A Poem in Imitation of the Tliird Satire of Juvenal... | |
 | Martin Priestman - 2003 - 316 ページ
...between crime and the law instead of being in opposition to each other, they are 'here' in complicity: 'Their Ambush here relentless Ruffians lay,/ And here the fell Attorney prowls for prey'.'3 By using the persona of Thales, Johnson may distance himself slightly from these sentiments,... | |
 | Everett Zimmerman - 2007 - 276 ページ
...degraded realm, or equate popular activity with natural disaster, as Samuel Johnson does in London: "Here malice, rapine, accident, conspire / And now a rabble rages, now a fire." Dryden, a product of the Civil War era and distressed by conspiracies such as the Popish Plot, ridiculed... | |
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