...within twenty-four hours, I have seen symptoms of that repentance which Johnson describes : " When nations, slowly wise and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust." 43 that they will be glad, when the world doubts whether they have any life left, to say, " Did not...

...or detraction. ' Who killed John Keats ? ' 'I,' said the Quarterly, is a libel. All ages have seen Nations slowly wise and meanly just To buried merit raise the tardy bust. Pheidias died in prison ; Rembrandt became a bankrupt ; Turner was reviled and Alfred Stevens neglected...

...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,...again attend. Hear Lydiat's Life, and Galileo's End. A different attitude to Roman models is illustrated by Charles Churchill (1732-64). Like Johnson, he...

...considering? It certainly wouldn't be recognition of his scholarly merits, as Johnson went on to point out: See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. But Pope was even more dismissive of the very idea of being tempted by Two's suggestions. 'What's fame?'...

...more meaning than ten of prose. A few pages later he quotes from Johnson's "Vanity of Human Wishes," See nations slowly wise and meanly just To buried merit raise the tardy bust, observing that "slowly wise" and "meanly just" "summarize long observation." Pound's position in the...

...though in England no longer deadly, as it had been a century before: Nor deem, when Learning her lost Prize bestows The glitt'ring Eminence exempt from Foes; See when the Vulgar 'scap'd despis'd or aw'd, Rebellion's vengeful Talons seize on Laud. From meaner Minds, tho' smaller...