 | 1892
...Library, or wander beneath its roof, without recalling the lines from "The Vanity of Human Wishes"? " When first the college rolls receive his name, The young enthusiast quits his ease for fame; Resistless burns the fever of renown, Caught from the strong contagion of the gown : O'er Bodley's... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 428 pages
...Library, or wander beneath its roof, without recalling the lines from "The Vanity of Human Wishes "? " When first the college rolls receive his name, The young enthusiast quits his ease for fame; Resistless burns the fever of renown, Caught from the strong contagion of the gown : O'er Bodley's... | |
 | Lucy Langdon Williams, Emma V. McLoughlin - 1892 - 276 pages
...it would fall down. Hence the sarcastic advice to new students, — Beware of Friar Bacon's study. " When first the college rolls receive his name, The young enthusiast quits ease for fame. Restless burns the fever of renown, Caught from the contagion of the gown, O'er Bodley's... | |
 | Douglas Macleane - 1897 - 580 pages
...all authority.' His lines in the Vanity of Human Wishes reflect the lot which he had tasted : — • 'When first the college rolls receive his name, The...renown Spreads from the strong contagion of the gown. O'er Bodley's dome his future labours spread, And Bacon's mansion trembles .o'er his head. Deign on... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1898 - 228 pages
...Pegasus.' 1. 34. contagion of his confidence. •When first the college-rolls receive his name, The yonng enthusiast quits his ease for fame; Through all his...renown Spreads from the strong contagion of the gown.' Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes, \. 135. See ante, p. 119, 1. 21, 'the contagion of misery.' P.... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 432 pages
...allied ? What but their wish indulged in courts to shine, And pow'r too great to keep, or to resign ? When first the college rolls receive his name, The young enthusiast quits his ease for fame ; Resistless burns the fever of renown, Caught from the strong contagion of the gown : O'er Bodley's... | |
 | R. McWilliam - 1900 - 834 pages
...Wishes,' the best of Johnson's poems, and the following are a few of the lines : — 1 Leslie Stephen. When first the College Rolls receive his name, The...Renown Spreads from the strong Contagion of the Gown ; O'er Bodley's Dome his future Labours spread, And Bacon's Mansion trembles o'er his Head. Are these... | |
 | Robert McWilliam - 1900 - 644 pages
...best of Johnson's poems, and the following are a few of the lines:— When first the College Bolls receive his name, The young Enthusiast quits his Ease...Renown Spreads from the strong Contagion of the Gown ; O'er Bodley's Dome his future Labours spread, And Bacon's Mansion trembles o'er his Head. Are these... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 546 pages
...too near recurrence of the verb spread, in his description of the young Enthusiast at College : •* Through all his veins the fever of renown, Spreads from the strong contagion of the gown; O'er Bodley's dome his future labours spread, And Bacon's mansion trembles o'er his head." He had desired... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1900 - 332 pages
...the pregnant allusion following, to the " patron [the first edition read ' garret'] and the jail " : When first the college rolls receive his name, The young enthusiast quits his ease for fame ; , . . Proceed, illustrious youth. And Virtue guard thee to the throne of Truth I Yet hope not life... | |
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O'er Bodley's dome his future labours spread, And Bacon's mansion trembles o'er his head. 
