...for thee : Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And panse awhile from letters, to be wise ; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet flatter,...

...labour : Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, A»d pause awhile from letteii, to be wise ; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the gaol, The Vanity of Human Wi,hes, the subject of which is in a great degree founded on the Ai.ciBIADES...

...for thee ; Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise ; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the gaol. See nations, slowly wise and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet...

...labour : Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pauic awhile from letteia, to be wise ; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the gaol. The Vanity of Human Wishes, the subject of which is in a great degree founded on the ALGIBIADES...

...for tbee : Deign on the passing vrorld to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters to be wise ; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jar!. See nations, slowly wise and meanly just, Tn buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet...

...for thee : Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise ; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet flatter,...

...should pass under it: but the study was taken down some years since, and left the traditiuu harmless. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet flatter,...

...patron, and the jail. See nations flowly wife, and meanly jult, To buried Merit raife the tardy buft. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end. I cannot forbear adding, that Jii/injbn made an alteration in the fourth of thefe lines; at firft it...

...other. In his Poem, entitled "Vanity of human wishes," a Couplet was altered ; it now stands thus, "There mark what. ills the Scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the Patron, and the Jail." And in his Dictionary this definition follows that ill-starred word, "Patron, Commonly a wretch who...

...Wishes," where, as a warning against the enthusiastical expectations of the young scholar, he says, • If dreams yet flatter, once again attend ; Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end. The publications of Lydiat were almost entirely chronological, astronomical, and physical. He left...