"Yet should thy Soul indulge the gen'rous Heat, / Till captive Science yields her last Retreat / Should Reason guide thee with her brightest Ray, / And pour on misty Doubt resistless Day; / Should no false Kindness lure to loose Delight, / Nor Praise relax, nor Difficulty fright; / Should tempting Novelty thy Cell refrain, / And Sloth's bland Opiates shed their Fumes in vain; / Should Beauty blunt on Fops her fatal Dart, / Nor claim the triumph of a letter'd Heart; / Should no Disease thy torpid Veins invade, / Nor Melancholy's Phantoms haunt thy Shade; Yet hope not Life from Grief or Danger free, / Nor think the Doom of Man revers'd for thee."
The Vanity of Human Wishes
At least 19 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1749, 1752, 1755, 1759, 1763, 1765, 1785, 1789, 1792, 1793, 1795, 1796, 1797). [Reprinted in Dodsley's miscellany.]<br>
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See <u>The Vanity of Human Wishes. the Tenth Satire of Juvenal, Imitated by Samuel Johnson.</u> (London: Printed for R. Dodsley at Tully’s Head in Pall-Mall, and sold by M. Cooper in Pater-Noster Row, 1749). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T54333">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br>
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Page and line numbers correspond to <u>Samuel Johnson's Selected Poetry and Prose</u>. Ed. Frank Brady and W. K. Wimsatt. Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1977. Text edited by Jack Lynch. &lt;<a href="http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/vanity49.html">Link to Jack Lynch's online edition</a>&gt;