...'Senility and Imbecility,' which show us life under its most melancholy form: '"In life's last scenes what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise! From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires, a driveller and a show.' "When...

...forcibly home to my mind a train of melancholy reflections on the miserable state of our mortal being: ' In life's last scene what prodigies surprise! Fears of the brave and follies of the wise, From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow; And Swift expires a driv'ler and a show.' 'A. of...

...to know, That Ufe protracted is protracted woe. SAMUEL JOHNSON — Vanity of Human Wuhes. L.255. 3 the deaths we die Before we can be dead indeed. WE HENLEY— Rhymes and Rhythms. XV. 13 In From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show. SAMUEL...

...'Senility and Imbecility,' which show us life under its most melancholy forms : " ' In life's last scenes, what prodigies surprise! Fears of the brave and follies of the wise. From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driv'ller and a show!' When...

...guilt and greatness equal ran, And all that raised the hero sunk the man, or Johnson's finer lines — In life's last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise ! From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show ? What...

...of Fate. From Lydia's monarch2 should the search descend, By Solon caution'd to regard his end, 314 tage to a harmonious perfection, in the subduing of the great obvious faults of our animalit ! From Marlb'rough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driv'ler and a show. Where...

...of Fate. From Lydia's Monarch should the Search descend, By Solon caution'd to regard his End, 326 In Life's last Scene what Prodigies surprise, Fears of the Brave, and Follies of the Wise ! From Marlb'roagh's Eyes the Streams of Dotage flow, And Swift expires a Driv'ler and a Show. The...

...gulphs of Fate. From Lydia's monarch should the search descend, By Solon caution'd to regard his end; From Marlb'rough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driv'ler and a show. The teeming...

...Different again is the savagely particular illustration of generalizations concerning "life's last scene"; In life's last scene what prodigies surprise; Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise! From Marlb'rough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driv'ler and a show. Another...

...gulfs of Fate. From Lydia's monarch should the search descend, By Solon cautioned to regard his end, In life's last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise! From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveler and a show. The teeming...