...begins by proposing an overall view of the vain folly of humanity: 43 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...

...this poem are perhaps the dramatization par excellence of this stance: Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife. And watch the busy scenes of crouded life. 58 See Rude, Hanoverian London, ch. i; Raymond Williams,...

...mobile rich making a blind blundering visitation on the inert poor. Let Observation with extensive view Survey Mankind, from China to Peru; Remark each anxious Toil, each eager Strife, And watch the busy scenes of crouded Life. The result is frequently maddening to both parties....

...Johnson proposes in the opening verses 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 crouded [sic] life. Reality, however, requires a compromise between...

...From THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES THK TENTH SATIRE OF JUVENAL IMITATED 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...

...the Enlightenment. A famous poem by Samuel Johnson starts like this: 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...

...OBSERVATION IN ACADEMIC AND VOCATIONAL COURSES POST-16 Nick Meagher 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. (Samuel Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes, 1749)...

...served not so much to expose the vanity of human aspirations from 125 Let Observation with extensive View, Survey Mankind from China to Peru; Remark each anxious Toil, each eager Strife, And watch the busy Scenes of crouded Life; Then say how Hope and Fear, Desire and Hate, O'erspread...

...('China to Peru') in terms suiting the high phase of colonial expansion: Let Observation with extensive View, Survey Mankind, from China to Peru; Remark each anxious Toil, each eager Strife, And watch the busy Scenes of crouded Life. . . . The syllogistic structure of Johnson's 'reactionary...

...about who is speaking to whom. The opening is confusing grammatically: Let Observation with extensive View, Survey Mankind, from China to Peru Remark each anxious Toil, each eager Strife, And watch the busy Scenes of crouded Life; Then say how Hope and Fear, Desire and Hate, O'er...