 | William Blake - 1996 - 180 ページ
...themes and style were shaped by the Enlightenment. A famous poem by Samuel Johnson starts like this: 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... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 ページ
...empiricism. "Observation with extensive View" widely surveys the world's strife, remarks, watches, and can "Then say how Hope and Fear, Desire and Hate, / O'erspread with Snares the clouded Maze of Fate" (1,5-6). One aspect of Johnson's inner and outer empirical world was its Christianity that so improved... | |
 | Ronald Schleifer - 2000 - 246 ページ
...clarify these questions, if not their answers. Let's look at the beginning of The Vanity of Human Wishes. Let observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind,...busy scenes of crowded life; Then say how hope and feat, desire and hate. O'er spread with snares the clouded maze of fate. In these lines Johnson reduces... | |
 | Adam Potkay - 2000 - 276 ページ
...metaphor of society as theatre served not so much to expose the vanity of human aspirations from 125 Let Observation with extensive View, Survey Mankind...Toil, each eager Strife, And watch the busy Scenes of crouded Life; Then say how Hope and Fear, Desire and Hate, O'erspread with Snares the clouded Maze... | |
 | Laura Brown - 2001 - 292 ページ
...circumnavigation of the world: Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru; Then say how hope and fear, desire and hate, O'erspread with snares die clouded maze of fate. This global inquiry comes to a problematic close in die poem's last verse... | |
 | Timothy Wilson-Smith - 2004 - 174 ページ
...fear, desire and hate. O'er spread with 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 the mist delude. Shuns fancied ills, or chases airy good.41 He had a talent for concision of which Juvenal,... | |
 | Thomas J. McCarthy - 2006 - 240 ページ
...the rough is easier to spot when everyone isn't pretending to be so precious. June 2000 SMALL FISH 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 the... | |
 | Stan Smith - 2006 - 236 ページ
...'Indias of spice and Myne' ('China to Peru') in terms suiting the high phase of colonial expansion: Let Observation with extensive View, Survey Mankind,...Toil, each eager Strife, And watch the busy Scenes of crouded Life. . . . The syllogistic structure of Johnson's 'reactionary tract', however, undercuts... | |
 | Thomas, Bethan, Dorling, Daniel - 2007 - 316 ページ
...may well think that. But, by then, who will listen to them - or to you? 9 Conclusion: merely players? Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind,...strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life. (Samuel Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes, in Niall Rudd, ed, 1981, Johnson's Juvenal: London and... | |
 | William Kupersmith - 2007 - 280 ページ
...for the reader to be confused about who is speaking to whom. The opening is confusing grammatically: Let Observation with extensive View, Survey Mankind,...Toil, each eager Strife, And watch the busy Scenes of crouded Life; Then say how Hope and Fear, Desire and Hate, O'er spread with Snares the clouded Maze... | |
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LET observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru ; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life... 
