<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=571281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Scholar's Life</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mark what ills the scholar’s life assail, <br>toil, envy want, the garret and the jail, <br>and others Dr. Johnson has omitted, <br>like friends who think he ought to be committed<br>by men with licenses and long white coats<br>who do not care for all the things he quotes, <br>and patrons who have never gone to college, <br>who hope that words he uses to acknowledge<br>their help will make them so respectable<br>that they to higher office are electable, <br>and scholars who search carefully his writings<br>for their own names in small print in the citings<br>of footnotes, endnotes, all the apparatus<br>which basically for them is all that matters, <br>protected by their status and their tenure, <br>manure some pile on, some pile on womenure. <br>To toil and envy, garret and the jail, <br>add steps some make to make their rivals fail.<br>These are some ills befalling scholars’ lives; <br>survivors are the ones with lovely wives.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Frank Kermode reviews several books on Dr. Johnson in the NYR, June 22,2006: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When Johnson’s poem “The Vanity of Human Wishes” was first published in 1749, it contained this couplet: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">…mark what ills the scholar’s life assail, <br>Toil, envy, want, the garret at the jail.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the second edition of 1755, “garret” is changed to “patron.” </div><div style="margin:10px 0">6/11/06</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gershon+Hepner">Gershon Hepner</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=571281" data-title="Scholar's Life de Gershon Hepner" data-description="Mark what ills the scholar’s life assail, toil, envy want, the garret and the jail, and others Dr. Johnson has omitted, like friends who think he ought to be committed by men with licenses and long white coats who do not care for all the thin..."></div> </div> </div>

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