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| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 664 pages
...gentle sea divide, Swift ruffling circles curl on every side, And glimmering fragments of a broken Son, Banks, trees, and skies, in thick disorder run. To...by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew) He quits his cell ; the pilgrim-staff he bore, And fix'd the scallop... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 620 pages
...divide, Swift ruffling circles curl on every side, And glimmering fragments of a broken Sun, JSanks, trees, and skies, in thick disorder run. To clear...by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew) He quits his cell ; the pilgrim-staff he bore, And fix'd the scallop... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 620 pages
...Swift ruffling circles curl on every side, And glimmering fragments of a broken Sun, Jianks, tries, and skies, in thick disorder run. To clear this doubt,...report it right, (For yet by swains alone the world lie knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew) He quits his cell ; the pilgrim-staff he... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 664 pages
...gentle sea divide, Swift ruffling circles carl on every side, And glimmering fragments of a broken Son, Banks, trees, and skies, in thick disorder run. To clear this doubt, to know the world by light, To find if books, or swains, report it right, (For yet by swains alone the world be knew, Whose... | |
| William Scott - 1814 - 424 pages
...: But if a stone the gentle sea divide, Swift ruffling circles curl on ev'ry side j And glimm'ring fragments of a broken sun, Banks, trees and skies in thick disorder ran. To clear this doubt ; to know the world by sight ; To find if books or swains report it right... | |
| James Boswell - 1816 - 500 pages
...Dr. JOHNSON'S Opinion ; 3d of May, 1779. " PARNELL, in his ' Hermit,' has the following passage : * To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, " To find if boohs and swains report it right : * (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, ' Whose feet came... | |
| 1817 - 314 pages
...glow : But if a stone the gentle sea divide, Swift ruffling circles curl on every side, And glimmering fragments of a broken sun, " Banks, trees, and skies,...by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew) He quits his cell ; the pilgrim-staff he bore, And fix'd the scallop... | |
| William Scott - 1817 - 416 pages
...But if a stone the gentle sea divide, Swift ruffling circles curl on ev'ry side ; And gliiuru'ring fragments of a broken sun, Banks, trees and skies in thick disorder run. _ To clear this doubt ; to know the world by sight ; To rind if books or swains report it right ; (.For... | |
| John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...glow : But if a stone the gentle sea divide, Swift ruffling circles curl on every side, And glimmering fear no GA+ wandering o'er the nightly dew) He quits his cell ; the pilgrim-start' he bore, And fix'd the scallop... | |
| William Scott - 1820 - 422 pages
...ev'ry side ; And glimm'ring fragments of a broken sun, £anks, trees and skies in thick disorder ran. To clear this doubt ; to know the world by sight ;...yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet come wand'ring o'er the nightly dewjf) He quits his cell ; the pilgrim staff he bore, And fix'd the... | |
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