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
| William Scott - 1823 - 396 pages
...Swift ruffling circles curl on evrry side ; And glimm'ring fragments of a broken sun, Banks, seas, and skies, in thick disorder run. To clear this doubt ; to know the world by sight ; To nnd if books or swains report it right ; (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came... | |
| John Walker - 1823 - 406 pages
...; But if a stone the gentle sea divide, Swift ruffling circles curl on every side ; And glimm'ring fragments of a broken sun, Banks, trees, and skies, in thick disorder run. In reading this simile, the voice should fall intb a plaintive monotone at So when a smooth expanse,... | |
| British anthology - 1824 - 460 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 Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...glow: But if a stone the gentle sea divide, Swift ruffling circles curl on every side, And glimmering heir malice too a sore suspicion brings; For though...blame them for intruding in your line; Fat bishopries wandering o'er the nightly dew) \e quite his cell ; the pilgrim staff he bore, And fix'd the scallop... | |
| James Boswell - 1824 - 438 pages
...lady and me concerning a passage in Parnell. That poet tells us, that his Hermit quitted his cell ' to know the world by sight, To find if books or swains report it right ; (For yet by swaitis alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wand'ring o'er the nightly dew.)' I maintain, that... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 pages
.... {But if a stone the gentle sea divide, Swift ruffling circles curl on ev'ry side, And glimm'ring 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 Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...And glimmering fragments of a broken sun, Banks, trees, and skies, in thiek disorder run. To elear 0 eame wandering o'er the nightly dew) He quits his eell ; the pilgrim staff he bore, And fix'd the seallop... | |
| James Boswell - 1826 - 412 pages
...Case for 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 books and swains report it right : (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wand'ring... | |
| James Boswell - 1826 - 416 pages
...Case for 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 books and swains report it right : (For yet by stvains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wand'ring... | |
| John Barclay (of Calcots.) - 1826 - 184 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 in thick disorder run. Parnell. The scatter'd lights that skirt the bay All, one by one, have died away; The only lamp of... | |
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