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Friday, September 18, 2009
For Credit: Lines 135 - 174 (Intellectual Preeminence)
If you want to paraphrase 6 to 10 lines from the section of poem in which Johnson discusses intellectual preeminence (note particularly lines 143 – 156, a sonnet-within-the-poem on the many dangers and obstacles that can befall the young college student…), post your paraphrase as a comment here.
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Yet hope not life from grief or danger free, Nor think the doom of man reversed for thee: Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail." (lines 155-160)
-Don't think that just because one is a scholar life will be free from strife or difficulty. Turn your eyes to the truth in the present to see that apart from the physical letters, there is little that books can offer to the ills of society. The scholar will still be subject to the ills of society.
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