 To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right, (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew...  Child's Magazine - Page 41816Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Rogers - 1820 - 160 pages
...side, And glimmering fragments of a broken sun, Banks, trees, 'm,l skies, in thick dJsordcr rt«. B To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right ; (For yel by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew) He quits his... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 550 pages
...tells us, that his Hermit quitted hi« cell • — to know the world by »igbt, . • To find if boots or swains report it right ; ' < For yet by swains alone the world he knew, I maintain, that there is an inconsistency here ; for as the Hermit's notion» of the world were formrd... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 398 pages
...curl on ev'ry iirfe ; And ghmm'i ing fragments uf a broken son, Banks, trees aijcl skies in thir.k disorder run. To clear this doubt ; to know the world by sight ; To fin I if books or swains report it right ; (For jet by swaine alone the \yorld he knew. Whose feel... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 346 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 fixM the scallop... | |
 | 1821 - 282 pages
...glow ; But if a stone the gentle sea divide, Swift rushing circles curl on every side, And glimmering fragments of a broken sun : Banks, trees, and skies,...this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if brooks or swains report it right, (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 412 pages
...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 books and main* report it right : (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wand'ring o'er... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 418 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 looks and swains report it right : (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wand'ring... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 458 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 loolcs and swains report it right : ' (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, ' Whose feet came... | |
 | James Boswell - 1823 - 492 pages
...That poet tells us, that his Hermit quitted his cell ' to know the world by sight, To find i( bunks or swains report it right ; (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew).' I maintain, that there is an inconsistency here ; for as the Hermit's... | |
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