 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
 | Francisco de Losa - 1841 - 140 pages
...glimmering fragments of a broken sun, Banks, tiees, and skies, in thick disorder run. To clear this donbt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right ; (For yet by s warns alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew) He quits his cell... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...divide, Swift ruffling circles curl on every side, And glimmering fragments of a broken Sun, Bonks, s. * Wife to one of the footmen, t Earl of Berkeley's valet, t The old deaf housekeeper. § wandering o'er the nightly dew) He quits his cell ; the pilgrim-staff he bore, And fix'd the scallop... | |
 | Readings - 1843 - 466 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,...books or swains report it right, (For yet by swains 2 alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew,) He quits his cell; the... | |
 | Alexander Reid - 1843 - 122 pages
...: But, if a storm the gentle sea divide, Swift ruffling circlet curl on every side ; And glimmering fragments of a broken sun, Banks, trees, and skies in thick disorder run. 7. The virtuous man, at death, is like the setting sun, which sinks serenely in one hemisphere, to... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1847 - 744 pages
...companion, is just twenty. " I am, dear Doctor, your affectionate friend and servant, " D. HUME." " To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books or swains report it right, He quits his cell; the pilgrim's star!' he bore, And fix'd the scallop in his hat before." *° CLXli"... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...glows ; 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,...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... | |
 | Goold Brown - 1848 - 324 pages
...wood ! — Pop*. FIGURE V. SYNECDOCHE. 'Twas then his threshold first receiv'da guest. — ParnelL For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wand'ring o'er the nightly dew. — Id. Flush'd by the spirit of the genial year, Now from the virgin's cheek a fresher bloom Shoots,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 442 pages
...JOHNSON'S OPINION; "May 3. 1779. " Parnell, in his ' Hermit,' has the following pas • •age: — ' 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 o'er... | |
 | George Johnston - 1850 - 634 pages
...one ? By his cockle-hat and staff, And his sandal shoon." And thus Parnell says of his hermit : — " To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books or swains report it right, He quits his cell, the pilgrim staff he oore, And fixed the scallop ta his hat before." * Clarke's... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1851 - 474 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 fixed the scallop... | |
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