| John Bell - English poetry - 1777 - 636 pages
...CLXIV. Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go, ^ And view the ocean leaning on the sky i >-'^ From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know, And on the lunar world securely pry. » CLXV. This I foretel, from your auspicious care, i,"S. Who great in search of God and Nature grow... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...Aadsometimes it issued inabsurdities, of which perhaps he was not conscious: Then we upon our orb's last verge shall go, And see the ocean leaning on...we shall know, And on the lunar World securely pry. , ' wse lines have no meaning • but may we not say, in imitation of Cowley on another book, Tis so... | |
| English poetry - 1801 - 416 pages
...may gain, and all may be supply'd. CXI. IV. Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go, And view the ocean leaning on the sky ; From thence our rolling...we shall know, And on the lunar world securely pry. CLXV. This I foretel, from your auspicious care, Who great in search of God and Nature grow; Who bestyour... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...sometimes it issued in absurdities, of which perhaps he was not conscious : Then we upon our orb's last verge shall go, And see the ocean leaning on...we shall know, And on the lunar world securely pry. These lines have no meaning • but may we not say, in imitation of Cowley on another book, Tis so... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English language - 1805 - 936 pages
...danger; sif.ly. We upon our globe's last verge shall go, And view the ocean leaning on the sky; rrom thence our rolling neighbours we shall know, And on the lunar world iccurely pry. DryJeo. - . ... f , ni/ in jet ur~e. i T^hc cause of safety ; protection; defence They,... | |
| 1806 - 690 pages
...issued in absurdities, of which perhaps lie, was conscious : Then we upon our orbs last verge shall g°, And see the ocean leaning on the sky, from thence...we shall know, And on the lunar world securely pry. These lines ferve ire meaning r fent majr w« not say in imitation of Cowfey on another hook, •TS»... | |
| John Dryden - 1808 - 382 pages
...Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go, And view the ocean leaning on the sky ; From tlienoe our rolling neighbours we shall know, And on the lunar world securely pry. Tins 1 foretel, from your auspicious care, Who great in search of God anil Nature grow; Who best your... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 508 pages
...o'er and o'er, Then sink into yourselves, and be no N..,*, Dryden, in his poem on the Royal Society, has these lines : ' Then we upon our globe's last...shall go, ' And see the ocean leaning on the sky; f From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know, ' And on the lunar world securely pry." Talking... | |
| John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 482 pages
...more exact measure of longitude. Dryden. 164. Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go, And view the ocean leaning on the sky: From thence our rolling...we shall know, And on the lunar world securely pry. 165. This I foretel from your auspicious care, * Who great in search of God and nature grow; Who best... | |
| John Dryden - 1808 - 476 pages
...themselves are both poetical and expressive : ' Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go, And view the ocean leaning on the sky'; From thence our rolling...we shall know/ And on the lunar world securely pry. In short, Dryden never fails in the power of elegant expression, till he ventures upoit something which... | |
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