| William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1889 - 520 pages
...patron, and the jail. See nations, slowly wise and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end. Garrick pronounced Johnson's poem " as hard as Greek." It certainly is not very easy reading. The passage... | |
| AUGUSTINE BIRRELL - 1891 - 350 pages
...patron and the gaol See nations, slowly wise and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end.' If this be not poetry, may the name perish ! In another style, the stanzas on the young heir's majority... | |
| George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1892 - 220 pages
...patron, and the gaol. See nations, slowly wise and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end." The last line of manuscript that Sir Walter Scott sent to press, the line with which he closed his... | |
| George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1892 - 220 pages
...patron, and the gaol. See nations, slowly wise and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end." The last line of manuscript that Sir Walter Scott sent to press, the line with which he closed his... | |
| Louis Du Pont Syle - 1894 - 488 pages
...patron, and the jail. 160 See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's...life and Galileo's end. Nor deem, when Learning her last prize bestows, 165 The glitt'ring eminence exempt from foes : See, when the vulgar 'scape, despis'd... | |
| Louis Du Pont Syle - 1894 - 508 pages
...See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet natter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's life and Galileo's end. Nor deem, when Learning her last prize bestows, 165 The glitt'ring eminence exempt from foes : See, when the vulgar 'scape, despis'd... | |
| Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1894 - 688 pages
...patron, and the jail. See nations, slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's life and Galileo's end." The poem brought him little besides a growing reputation. A few days after the publication of the "Vanity... | |
| Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 432 pages
...patron, and the jail. See nations, slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's...life, and Galileo's end. Nor deem, when learning her last prize bestows, The glitt'ring eminence exempt from foes ; See when the vulgar 'scapes, despised... | |
| Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 pages
...patron, and the jail. See nations, slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's life and Galileo's end." The poem brought him little besides a growing reputation. A few days after the publication of the "... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1899 - 442 pages
...patron and the jail. See nations, slowly wise and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end. If this be not poetry, may the name perish ! In another style, the stanzas on the young heir's majority... | |
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