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... Poems on Several Occasions - Página 164por Thomas Parnell - 1726 - 221 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 páginas
...sun," Bunks, trees, and skíet», in thick disorder ruu. To clear this doubt, to know the world by \O\U\YC\\ ot a shed; flu ules by bis clwerf\\\ ftre, ш Hie childr Wh +his loved partne be knew. Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew — He quits his cell ; t lie pilgrim-stuff... | |
| James Boswell - 1831 - 592 páginas
...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 swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wand'ring o'er the nightly dew).* I maintain, that there is an inconsistency here;... | |
| 1840 - 534 páginas
...Sun, Banks, trees, and skies, hi 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 he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew,) He quits his cell ; the pilgrim-staft' he bore, And... | |
| Thomas Parnell - 1833 - 324 páginas
...broken sun, Banks, trees, and skies, in thick disorder run. 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,) He quits his cell; the pilgrim-staff he bore, And... | |
| Thomas Parnell - 1833 - 318 páginas
...exceptionable, and there is an ambiguity of expression, in the lines " To find if boohs, or strains, report it right, (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew) ;" which might without much difficulty have been removed.... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 páginas
...broken sun, Banks, trees, and skies, in thick disorder run. 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) He quits his cell ; the pilgrim-staff he bore, And... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 438 páginas
...broken sun, Banks, trees, and skies, in thick disorder run. 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) He quits his cell ; the pilgrim-staff he bore, And... | |
| Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 páginas
...broken sun, Banks, trees and skies in thick disorder run. 4. 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 wand'ring o'er the nightly dew,) He quits his cell ; the pilgrim staff he bore, And... | |
| 1840 - 272 páginas
...the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise. 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,) He quits his cell; the pilgrim-staff he bore, And... | |
| 1840 - 274 páginas
...broken Sun, Banks, trees, and skies, in thick disorder run. 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,) He quits his cell ; the pilgrim-staff he bore, And... | |
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