 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - Liczba stron: 1432
...Speak thou, whose thoughts at humble peace repine, Shall Wolsey's wealth, with Wolsey's end, be thine? whv did Wolsey, near the steeps of fate, 125 On weak foundations raise th' enormous weight? Why but... | |
 | James Boswell - 1928 - Liczba stron: 390
...than in the following noble passage of Dr. Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes.10 What gave great Villars to th' assassin's knife? And fix'd disease on Harley's closing life? What murder'd Wentworth, and what exiled Hyde, By kings protected and to kings allied? What but their wish indulg'd in courts to shine,... | |
 | William Henry Oliphant Smeaton - 1899 - Liczba stron: 390
...whose thoughts at humble peace repine, Shall Wolsey's wealth, with Wolsey's end, be thine? Or hVst thou now, with safer pride content, The wisest justice...beneath misfortune's blow, With louder ruin to the gulfs below? What gave great Villiers to th' assassin's knife, And fix'd disease on Harley's closing... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1896 - Liczba stron: 876
...pride content, The wisest Member on the banks of Trent ? And then follow the lines he quoted : (Oh, why did Wolsey) near the steeps of fate On weak foundations raise the enormous weight ? &c. 8th. — Made our annual excursion to White Horse Hill. We lunched, as usual,... | |
 | Richard Jenkyns - 1992 - Liczba stron: 526
...Disease, remember'd Folly stings, And his fast Sighs reproach the Faith of Kings. For why did Wolscy near the Steeps of Fate, On weak Foundations raise...Misfortune's Blow, With louder Ruin to the Gulphs below? Johnson was able to find fresh inspiration in the Roman models; following Juvenal rather than Horace,... | |
 | Howard Anderson - 1967 - Liczba stron: 429
...for himself, the style corresponding to his conception of sublime things as Burke was to see them: For why did Wolsey, near the steeps of fate, On weak foundations rear th' enormous weight? Why but to sink beneath misfortune's blow With louder ruin to the gulphs... | |
 | Adam Potkay - 2000 - Liczba stron: 276
...Speak thou, whose Thoughts at humble Peace repine, Shall Wolsey's Wealth, with Wolsey's End be thine? Or liv'st thou now, with safer Pride content, The wisest Justice on the Banks of Trent? (11. 121-24) The Trent is the chief river of Johnson's native Staffordshire, a place the speaker here... | |
 | Pauline Beard, Robert Liftig, James S. Malek - 2007 - Liczba stron: 370
...thou, whose thoughts at humble peace repine, 50 Shall Wolsey's wealth, with Wolsey's end be thine? Or liv'st thou now, with safer pride content, The...near the steeps of fate, On weak foundations raise the enormous weight? 55 Why but to sink beneath misfortune's blow, With louder ruin to the gulfs below?... | |
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Speak thou whose thoughts at humble peace repine, Shall Wolsey's wealth, with Wolsey's end, be thine ? Or liv'st thou now, with safer pride content, The wisest justice on the banks of Trent ? For why did Wolsey, near the steeps of fate, On weak foundations... 
