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... Notes and Queries - Página 1411860Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 páginas
...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... | |
| English poetry - 1867 - 336 páginas
...skies, in thick disorder run. 20 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, 25... | |
| English poems - 1870 - 722 páginas
...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... | |
| Henry Carrington Alexander - 1870 - 674 páginas
...gentlemen communicated with Dr. * " To clear this doubt, to know tho 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." — Parnell, The Hermit. London, Strand, John Bell,... | |
| Thomas Wright - 1872 - 568 páginas
...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 wand'ring o'er the nightly dew) He quits his cell ; the pilgrim's staff he bore, And... | |
| English poetry - 1873 - 390 páginas
...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 wand'ring o'er the nightly dew,) He quits his cell ; the pilgrim staff he bore, And... | |
| Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 590 páginas
...in the following lines : — 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 wandering o'er the nightly dew. 3. Allegories. — According to the etymology of the... | |
| James Boswell - 1874 - 584 páginas
...That poet tells us, that his Hermit quitted his cell ' to know the world by sight, To find if 600*5 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 ;... | |
| Thomas Parnell - 1874 - 72 páginas
...author's poem on Piety, " The cloud on which she seemed to tread Its curls unfolded." 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, ...... | |
| James Boswell - 1874 - 584 páginas
...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 wandering o'er the nightly dew).' Is there not a contradiction in its being first supposed... | |
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