 | James Boswell - 1820 - 520 pages
...publick instruction and entertainment, Prefaces, biographical and critical. It will not, therefore, b$ out of season to appeal to you for the decision of...lady and me concerning a passage in Parnell. That poets tell us, that his Hermit quitted his cell ' . to know the world by sight, ' To find if books... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 422 pages
...glimm'ring fragments of a broken sun, £anks, trees and skies in thick disorder ran. 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 come wand'ring o'er the nightly dewjf) He quits his cell... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...glimmering fragments of a broken Sun, Banks, trees, and skies, in thick disorder run. To clear this doubt, ; yet thi cA+ swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew) He quits his cell ;... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - 366 pages
...fragments of a 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 wand'ring o'er the nightly dew.) He quits his cell... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1820 - 160 pages
...fragments of a broken sun, Banks, trees, 'm,l skies, in thick dJsordcr rt«. B To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right ; (For yel by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew) He quits his... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 412 pages
...preparing, for the public instruction and entertainment, Prefaces, biographical and critical. It will not, therefore, be out of season to appeal to you...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... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 pages
...glimm'ring fragments of a 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 wand'ring o'er the nightly dew) He quits his cell ;... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 346 pages
...glimmering fragments of a 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 ;... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...glimmering fragments of a 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;... | |
 | James Boswell - 1823 - 492 pages
...entertainment, Prefaces, biographical and critical. It will not, therefore, be out of season to appeal to j'ou for the decision of a controversy which has arisen...quitted his cell ' to know the world by sight, To find i( bunks or swains report it right ; (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering... | |
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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... 
