 | John Bagnell Bury - History - 1920 - 404 pages
...Where some may gain and all may be supplied. 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. Men did not look far into the future ; they did not dream of what the world might be a thousand or... | |
 | Gerald Edwin Se Boyar - American literature - 1925 - 456 pages
...be supplied. Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go, And view the ocean leaning on the sky: e From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know, And on the lunar world securely pry. The venturous merchant 7 who design'd more far, And touches on our hospitable shore, Charm'd with the... | |
 | Nonsense verses - 1926 - 176 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 verge...shall know, And on the lunar world securely pry." 28 Book of Nonsense Verse That the Doctor has a distinct flair for the perpetration of Nonsense Verse,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1928 - 670 pages
...and o'er, Then sink into yourselves, and be no more.'1 Nay, Dryden, in his poem on the Royal Society, has these lines : ' Then we upon our globe's last...Johnson, who had a great contempt for that species ot wit, deigned to allow that there was one good pun in " Menagiana," I think on the word corps.2 Much... | |
 | Blair Hoxby - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 332 pages
...some may gain, and all may be suppli'd. 164. Then, we upon our Globes 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. (lines 645-56) By referring to these ships as "instructed," Dryden suggests that they are intelligent... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 2003 - 1024 pages
...Where some may gain and all may be supplied. Then, we upon our globe's last verge shall go0 And view the ocean leaning on the sky: From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know,0 And on the lunar world securely pry. Apostrophe to the Royal Socsety0 This I foretell, from... | |
 | Brian M. Stableford - Fiction - 2006 - 758 pages
...inspired by Wilkins, confidently stated that "Then, we upon our Globes last verge shall go, / And view the Ocean leaning on the sky: / From thence our rolling Neighbours we shall know, / And on the Lunar worlds securely pry". The mechanics of space travel remained an awkward challenge to the literary imagination... | |
 | Edmund Taylor Whittaker - Mathematics - 1949 - 236 pages
...poets seems to have misunderstood this point even with regard to the earth: Then we upon our orb's last verge shall go And see the ocean leaning on the...we shall know And on the lunar world securely pry. It was confusions such as this that led Dr Johnson to say of Dryden: 'He delighted to tread upon the... | |
 | 160 pages
...there * Cowley's Ode to the Royal Society. f "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." was doubtless something which might well move a smile. It is the universal law that whatever pursuit,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Hero worship - 1899 - 304 pages
...delight us with a better view of the moon : " 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. p. 73. His last words. Mahomet arranged for the payment of his debts, and the establishment... | |
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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. 
