Note 20 — Chapter III
Reading edition
From Dr. Johnson’s “Vanity of Human Wishes” (135-138), an early poem, based on Juvenal’s Tenth Satire. The third and fourth lines should run—
“Thro’ all his veins the fever of renown
Burns from the strong contagion of the gown.”
The poem was popular with such different judges as Sir Walter Scott, Byron, Cardinal Newman, and Matthew Arnold.