...SCRIBONIUS." XXVIII. PAINS AND PENALTIES OP AUTHORSHIP. Quicquid erit vitss scribam color. HoR. Then mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. JoHNSoN. « TO THE KEEPER OF THE CABINET. " SIR, — Your reception of my former letter induces me...

...(as nearly the whole of it did for centuries) the galling though gilded chain of patronage. Yet think what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron and the ge.ol, — said the indignant Johnson, filled as he was with habitual reverence for rank, yet resenting,...

...(as nearly the whole of it did for centuries) the galling though gilded chain of patronage. Yet think what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron and the gr.ol, — said the indignant Johnson, filled as he was with habitual reverence for rank, yet resenting,...

...so ctoss about Lord Chesterfield's cold shoulder that he rewrote his imitation of Juvenal, Yet think what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the Patron, and the jail. Mr Whitaker is very good on the paradoxes of philanthropy, and on the numerous motives that impel the...

...the following below him: 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. [VHW 157-60] In addition to these material "Ills," the scholar must also accept obscurity. Recognition...

...scholar his homeless despondency. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, poet, philosopher There mark what ills the scholar's life assail: Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the gaol. Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer Of making many books there is no...

...eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, 160 Toil, envy, want, the patron,* and the jail. See nations...bust. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Hear LydiatV life, and Galileo's* end. 165 Nor deem, when learning her last prize bestows, The glittering...

...from his own experience: 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...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...

...Through all his veins the fever of renown Burns from the strong contagion of the gown; (1. 135-138) 18 There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. (1. 159-160) 19 He left the name, at which the worldgrew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. (1....

...thanked him for 'your regard to learning'. 15 In The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), Johnson wrote: There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the garret, and the jaiL Attention has focused on the second line, where in the 1755 edition of the poem...