 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1884 - 478 pages
...globe's last verge shall go, And view the ocean leaning on the sky : , fr***^*-, ^ i f>t*-^» " /v From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know, And on the lunar world securely pry. CLXV. This I foretell from your auspicious care, Apostrophe Who great in search of God and nature grow... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1895 - 234 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...shall know, And on the lunar world securely pry." These lines have no meaning ; but may we not say, in 20 imitation of Cowley on another book, " 'Tis... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Criminal law - 1898 - 590 pages
...Society. * Cowley's Ode to the Royal Society. * " Then we upon the globe's last verge shall go, And view the ocean leaning on the sky ; From thence our rolling...shall know, And on the lunar world securely pry." Annus Mirabilis, 164. aspiring prelates, Ward, Bishop of Salisbury, and Wilkins, Bishop of Chester,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 216 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 20 imitation of Oowley on another book, Tis so... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 pages
...and o'er, Then sink into yourselves, and be no more.' Nay, Dryden in his poem on the Royal Society, has these lines : * Then we upon our globe's last...know. And on the lunar world securely pry.' " Talking ofpuns, Johnson, who had a great^contempt for that species of wTt, deigned to allow that there was... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 pages
...and o'er, Then sink into yourselves, and be no more *." Nay, Dryden in his poem on the Royal Society, ; Prom thence our rolling neighbours we shall know, And on the lunar world securely pry.'" Talking... | |
 | Georg Karl Cornelius Gerland - Geophysics - 1904 - 670 pages
...„Then we npoii sur globes last verge shall go, And view the ocean leaning on the sky; From thence sur rolling neighbours we shall know, And on the lunar world securely pry." Hier liegen die Keime zu der später so mächtig aufgeschossenen Literatur „über die Mehrheit der... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1905 - 530 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 6.' To sudden love, and to more sud- And he who servilely creeps after den scorn ! sense AMARILLIS,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1907 - 626 pages
...o'er, Then sink into yourselves, and be no more.'} Nay, Dryden, in his poem on the Royal Society,§ has these lines : ' Then we upon our globe's last...shall know. And on the lunar world securely pry.' " * Here is another instance of his high admiration of Milton as a Poet, notwithstanding his just abhorrence... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - England - 1909 - 194 pages
...children 1 Cowley's Ode to the Royal Society. 2 'Then we upon the globe's last verge shall go, And view the ocean leaning on the sky ; From thence our rolling...shall know, And on the lunar world securely pry.' Annus Mirabilia, 164. 8 North's Life of Guildford. and puzzled philosophers. Charles himself had a... | |
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Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go And view the ocean leaning on the sky : From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know And on the lunar world securely pry. 
