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
| Thomas Parnell - 1722 - 240 pages
...on ev'ry fide, And glimmering Fragments of a broken Sun, Banks, Trees, and Skies, in thick Diforder run, To clear this Doubt, to know the World by Sight,...right ; (For yet by Swains alone the World he knew, : Whofe Feet came wand'ringo'er the nightly Dew) He quits his Cell ; the J?ilgr jm-Staff he bore, fix'dt^e... | |
| Thomas Parnell - 1726 - 276 pages
...broken Sun, Banks, Trees, and Skies, in thick Diforder run. To clear this Doubt, to know the World by V Sight, To find if Books, or Swains, report it right ; (For yet by Swains alone the World he knew, Whofe Feet came wand'ring o'er the nightly Dew) He quits his Cell; the Pilgrim-Staff he bore, And fix'd... | |
| Muse - 1757 - 248 pages
...on ev'ry Side ; And glimm'ring Fragments of a broken Sun, Banks, Trees, and Skies, in thick Diforder run. To clear this Doubt, to know the World by Sight,...right ; (For yet by Swains alone the World he knew, Whofe Feet came wand'ring o'er the nightly" Dew) He quits his Cell ; the Pilgrim-Staff he bore, And... | |
| Thomas Parnell - Battle of the frogs and mice - 1760 - 268 pages
...fun, Banks, trees, and fkies, in thick diforder rim. To clear this doubt, to know the world by fight, To find if books, or Swains, report it right ; (For yet by Swains alone the world he knew, Whofe feet came wand'ring o'er the nightly dew) He quits his cell ; the Pilgrim-ftaff he bore, And... | |
| Thomas Parnell - Battle of the frogs and mice - 1760 - 268 pages
...fun, Banks, trees, and fkies, in thick diforder run. To clear this doubt, to know the world by fight, To find if books, or Swains, report it right ; (For yet by Swains alone the world he knew, Whofe feet came wand'ring o'er the nightly dew) He quits his cell ; the Pilgrim-ftaff he bore, And... | |
| Select lessons - 1785 - 156 pages
...Trees, and Skies, in thick Diforder run. To clear this Doubt, to know tke World by Sight, To find it" Books, or Swains, report it right ; (For yet by Swains alone the World he icnew, Whofe Feet came wand'ring o'er the nightly Dew) He quits his Cell; the Pifgrim-ftaff he bore,... | |
| English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...glow; But if a stone the gentle scene divide, Swift ruffling circles curl on ev'ry side, And glimm'ring fragments of a broken sun, Banks, trees, and skies, in thick disorder run. 5 To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right ; (For... | |
| Matthew Gregory Lewis - Ballads, English - 1801 - 266 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... | |
| John Walker - Elocution - 1801 - 424 pages
...glow: 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 into a plaintive monotone at So "when a smooth expanse,... | |
| James Thomson - 1803 - 268 pages
...: 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 , , j And fix'd the scallop... | |
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