 | English poetry - 1840 - 372 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... | |
 | Natural history - 1830 - 596 pages
...Elements of Natural Hiitory, p. 200. And thus Parnell says of his hermit : — " To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books or swains report it right, He quits his cell, the pilgrim staff he bore, And fixed the scallop in his hat before." You will now... | |
 | Francisco de Losa - Catholics - 1841 - 140 pages
...glimmering fragments of a broken sun, Banks, tiees, and skies, in thick disorder run. To clear this donbt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right ; (For yet by s warns alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew) He quits his cell... | |
 | James Boswell - 1843 - 588 pages
...preparing, for the public instruction and entertainment, prefaces biographical and critical. It will not, therefore, be out of season to appeal to you...• to know the world by sight, To find if books or strains report it right; (For yet by a wains alone the world he knew. Whose feet came waiid'ring o'er... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...glimmering fragments of a broken Sun, Bonks, trees, and skies, in thick disorder run. To clear this doubt, The old deaf housekeeper. § swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew) He quits his cell ;... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Judges - 1847 - 744 pages
...twenty. " I am, dear Doctor, your affectionate friend and servant, " D. HUME." " To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books or swains report it right, He quits his cell; the pilgrim's star!' he bore, And fix'd the scallop in his hat before." *° CLXli"... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1848 - 442 pages
...preparing, for die public instruction and entertainment, prefaces biographical and critical. It will not, therefore, be out of season to appeal to you...arisen between a lady and me concerning a passage in Pamell. That poet tells us, that his hermit quitted his cell - to know the world by sight, To find... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 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... | |
 | George Johnston - Mollusks - 1850 - 634 pages
...and staff, And his sandal shoon." And thus Parnell says of his hermit : — " To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books or swains report it right, He quits his cell, the pilgrim staff he oore, And fixed the scallop ta his hat before." * Clarke's... | |
 | James Boswell - 1863 - 352 pages
...preparing, for the public instruction and entertainment, Prefaces, biographical and critical It will not, therefore, be out of season to appeal to you...his cell ' to know the world by sight, To find if looks or swains report it right ; (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wand'ring... | |
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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... 
