 | Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 858 ページ
...roots arc only here— it hlossoms in ti.e skies. VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES[DR. JOHNSON.] LET ohservation with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to...each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the husy scenes of crowded life ; Then say how hope and fear, desire and hate, O'crspread with snares the... | |
 | President of a college - 1836 - 156 ページ
...yon old mansion | frowning through the trees, Whose hollow turret | woo« the whistling breeze." " Remark each anxious toil, | each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes | of crowded life." Q,. When is the harmony of verse impaired? A. When the ceesural pause happens nearer the beginning... | |
 | Juvenal - 1837 - 306 ページ
...more exert his rage, Thy satire point, and animate thy page. SATIRE X. THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES. LET observation with extensive view Survey mankind...life: Then say how hope and fear, desire and hate, 5 O'erspread with snares the clouded maze of fate, Where wav'ring man betray'd by vent'rous pride To... | |
 | 1838 - 1050 ページ
...exhibit his peculiar style of versification, which is much less known than his prose compositions. " Let observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind,...O'erspread with snares the clouded maze of fate. Where wav'ring man. hetray'd by vent'rous pride To tread the dreary paths without a guide. As Ireach'rous... | |
 | 1840 - 368 ページ
...his soul the nearest way. THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES, IN IMITATION OF THE TENTH SATIRE OF JCVENAL. 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 choose the dreary paths without a guide, As treach'rous... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 352 ページ
...two of Doctor Johnson's, places the unaffected force and freedom of the former in a striking light. Let observation with extensive view Survey mankind...watch the busy scenes of crowded life ; Then say, &c. Listen to Glorious John Dryden, and compare his directness with the pompous pleonasms of the author... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 376 ページ
...two of Doctor Johnson's, places the unaffected force and freedom of the former in a striking light. Let observation with extensive view Survey mankind...watch the busy scenes of crowded life ; Then say, &c. Listen to Glorious John Dryden, and compare his directness with the pompous pleonasms of the author... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 ページ
...two of Doctor Johnson's, places the unaffected force and freedom of the former in a striking light. Let observation with extensive view Survey mankind...watch the busy scenes of crowded life ; Then say, &c. Listen to Glorious John Dryden, and compare his directness with the pompous pleonasms of the author... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 ページ
...Drury Lane, and his lines ou the death of Levett, are in his best manner. [From the Vanity of Human W hich, though they discovered her sorrows, were never...on cushions which her maids brought her; and her betrayed by venturous prido, To tread the dreary paths without a guide ; As treacherous phantoms in... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1844 - 372 ページ
...Mark yon old mansion | frowning through the trees, Whose hollow turret | woos the whistling breeze." " Remark each anxious toil, | each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes | of crowded life." Q, When is the harmony of verse impaired ? A. When the caesural pause happens nearer the beginning... | |
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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... 
