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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. - Vanity of Human Wishes [Traveling] Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes And pause awhile from Learning to be wise; Yet think what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the goal. See nations, slowly wise and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. - Vanity of Human Wishes (l. 157) [Learning] To buried merit rise the tardy bust. - Vanity of Human Wishes (l. 157) [Learning] He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. - Vanity of Human Wishes (l. 221) [Names] "Enlarge my life with multitude of days!" In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays: Hides from himself its state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. - Vanity of Human Wishes (l. 255) [Life] An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away. - Vanity of Human Wishes (l. 293) [Decay : Innocence] Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage, Till pitying Nature signs the last release, And bids afflicted worth retire to peace. - Vanity of Human Wishes (l. 308) [Age] 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. - Vanity of Human Wishes (l. 315) [Life] Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate? - Vanity of Human Wishes (l. 345) [Fate] Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes. - Vanity of Human Wishes (l. 95) [Bribery] Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend. - Verses on the Death of Mr. Robert Levet (st. 2) [Character] Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. - Verses on the Death of Mr. Robert Levet (st. 9) [Death] Yet still he fills affection's eye, Obscurely wise, and coarsely kind. - Verses on the On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet [Obscurity] In misery's darkest caverns known, His useful care was ever nigh, Where hopeless Anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die. - Verses on the On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet (st. 5), in Boswell's "Life of Johnson" (1782) [Philanthropy] And sure the Eternal Master found The single talent well employ'd. - Verses on the On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet (st. 7) [Occupations : Talent] Catch, then, oh! catch the transient hour, Improve each moment as it flies; Life's a short summer--man a flower; He dies--alas! how soon he dies! - Winter--An Ode (l. 33) [Life] The myrtle (ensign of supreme command, Consigned by Venus to Melissa's hand) Not less capricious than a reigning fair, Oft favors, oft rejects a lover's prayer; In myrtle shades oft sings the happy swain, In myrtle shades despairing ghosts complain. - Written at the Request of a Gentleman (l. 3) [Myrtle] Displaying page 37 of 37 for this author: << Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 [37]
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