...the sacred verses — which Johnson wrote on the death of his humble friend, Levett ? " Well tried through many a varying year, See Levett to the grave...innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend. " In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh, Where hopeless anguish poured the...

...the sacred verses — which Johnson wrote on the death of his humble friend, Levett ? ' ' Well tried through many a varying year, See Levett to the grave...innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend. " In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh, Where hopeless anguish poured the...

...the sacred verses — which Johnson wrote on the death of his humble friend, Levett ? " Well tried through many a varying year, See Levett to the grave...innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend. " In misery's darkest cavcm known, His useful care was ever nigh, \Vhere hopeless anguish poured the...

...following noble lines, the finest he ever wrote: — " Well tried through many a varying year, See Levet to the grave descend ; Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend. " "When fainting nature call'd for aid, And hovering death prepared the blow, His vigorous remedy display'd...

...never more. DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON. (1709-1784.) ON THE DEATH OF MR. ROBERT LEVET, A PRACTISER IN PHYSIC. CONDEMN'D to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. DEATH OF MR. ROBERT LEVET. 543 Well tried, through...

...thousand worlds in Stella's arms. ON THE DEATH OF MR. ROBERT LEVET. A PRACTISER IN PHYSIC. /CONDEMNED to Hope's delusive mine, ^"* As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. Well tried through many a varying year, See...

...vulgar. Johnson's view as to what we should expect from life may appear from such Hues as Coudemn'd to hope's delusive mine As on we toil from day to day, and similar ones. Johnson was the opposite of a superficial and commonplace man, and was led to views...

...all things well for us here and hereafter, it is ordained that " Condemned by Hope°s delusive mien, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blast or slow decline Our social comforts drop away." By a dispensation to which we humbly bow we are called to pay our tribute to the memory of one so recently...

...in the last, are not surpassed by any thing in the whole compass of English poetry. « Well tried, through many a varying year, See Levett to the grave descend ; Officious, innocent, sincere, Of ev'ry friendless name the friend. " When fainting Nature called for aid, And hov'ring Death prepar'd...

...Death of Dr. Robert Levet," where he uses a simple four-line stanza with weight and dignity: Condemned to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. This has the simple gravity of a hymn. Johnson's...