| Half hours - 1847 - 580 ページ
...WISHES. S. JOHNSON. [IN IMITATION OF THE TENTH SATIRE OF JUVENAL.] 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 ; Then say how hope and fear, desire and hate, O'erspread... | |
| English poetry - 1848 - 468 ページ
...resist the billows and the sky. JOHNSON. THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES. 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, Then say how hope and fear, desire and hate, O'erspread... | |
| William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 ページ
...cruel death he died. COWPER. CHAPTER XXIX. VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES. 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 ; Then say how hope and fear, desire and hate O'erspread... | |
| Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 ページ
...within the walls of Bagdat." IN DOTATION OP THE TENTH SATIRE OP JUVENAL. 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 ; Then say how hope and fear, desire and hate, O'erspread... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 276 ページ
...VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES. IN IMITATION OF THE TENTH SATIRE OF JUVENAL. 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 ; Then say how hope and fear, desjrje and hate, Overspread... | |
| Samuel Bailey - 1855 - 308 ページ
...presents itself at the very opening of " The Vanity of Human Wishes." " 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 ; Then say how hope and fear, desire and hate, O'erspread... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 272 ページ
...VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES. IN IMITATION OF THE TENTH SATIRE OF JUVENAL. 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 ; Then say how hope and fear, desire and hate, O'erspread... | |
| Choice poems - 1862 - 368 ページ
...Samuel Johnson. Born 1707. Died 1784. FROM THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES. 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 ; Then say how hope and fear, desire and hate, O'erspread... | |
| John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 ページ
...way. MILTON. — Paradise Lost, Book II. Line 408. OBSERVATION.— 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. DR. JOHNSON. — Vanity of Human Wishes, Line 1... | |
| Penny readings - 1866 - 264 ページ
...VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES. (ABRIDGED FOR RECITATION.) DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON. 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 ; Then say how hope and fear, desire and hate, O'erspread... | |
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