 No pathless waste or undiscovered shore ? No secret island in the boundless main ? No peaceful desert yet unclaimed by Spain ? Quick let us rise, the happy seats explore And bear oppression's insolence no more. This mournful truth is everywhere confessed...  Wine for the Soul: In Prose and Verse - 第 53 頁Maggie Olive Jordan 著 - 1919 - 114 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | 1897 - 918 頁
...and declared that By numbers here from shame or censure free, All crimes are safe but hated poverty. This mournful truth is everywhere confessed — Slow rises worth by poverty depressed; But here more slow, where all are slaves to gold, Where looks are merchandise, and smiles are sold.... | |
 | London - 1851 - 200 頁
...but obtain a bare subsistence, which forced from him the well-known lines in his poem on London : " This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, Slow rises worth by poverty depressed." He lodged at a staymaker's, in Exeter-street, and dined at the Pine Apple, just by, for eightpence.... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham - 1852 - 276 頁
...in my frequent intercourse with him, he often repeated, with emotion, the lines of Dr. Johnson,— This mournful truth is everywhere confessed — Slow rises Worth, by Poverty depressed. The literary acquirements of Harris could not, however, long remain unknown. He was was often visited... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 頁
...166. Of all the griefs that harass the distressed, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest. Line 176. This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, Slow rises worth by poverty depressed. Lines added to Goldsmith's Traveller. How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 頁
...LONDON. Of all the griefs that harass the distressed, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest. Line 166. This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, Slow rises worth by poverty depressed. Line 176. Each change of many-colored life he drew, Exhausted worlds and then imagined new. Prologue... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 頁
...Penurious cares corrode his breast ; Without respect, or love, or friends, His solitary day descends. Gay. This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, Slow rises worth by poverty depressed. Johiuon, London, !"C• But poverty, with most who whimper forth Their long complaints, is self-inflicted... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 頁
...LONDON. Of all the griefs that harass the distressed, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest. Line 166. This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, Slow rises worth by poverty depressed. Line 176. Each change of many-coloured life he drew, Exhausted worlds and then imagined new. Prologue... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1850 - 492 頁
...unclaimed by Spain? Quick let us rise, the happy seats explore, And bear opp:ession's insolence no more. This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, SLOW RISES WORTH, BY POVERTY DEPRESSED. . FROM THE "VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES." 216. CHARLES XII. On what foundation stands the warrior's pride,... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - 1878 - 874 頁
...Cook. We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one we love. Madame de Stael. This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, Slow" rises worth by poverty depressed. Johnson. A detractor is his own foe, and the world's enemy. He prayeth best who loveth best All things... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1879 - 708 頁
...Johnson's feeling as a lonely struggler in the great city, and had printed in capitals one line: " This mournful truth is everywhere confessed; SLOW RISES WORTH BY POVERTY DEPRESSED." It was in a second edition within a week. Pope caused inquiry to be made for the author, and recommended... | |
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