Nor those of learn'd philologists, who chase A panting syllable through time and space, Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's ark ; But such as learning, without false pretence, The friend of truth, the associate... Table Talk, and Other Poems - Σελίδα 196των William Cowper - 1817 - 179 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
| 1897 - 660 σελίδες
...realm of words, "chasing a panting syllable through time and space, starting it at home and hunting it in the dark, to Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's Ark." And yet when that teacher convened with us upon familiar terms, he was guilty of many and many an error... | |
| William Cowper - 1898 - 334 σελίδες
...; 690 Nor those of learned philologists, who chase A panting syllable through time and space, Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece,...ark ; But such as learning without false pretence, 695 The friend of truth, the associate of sound sense, And such as, in the zeal of good design, Strong... | |
| William Cowper - 1898 - 334 σελίδες
...ark ; But such as learning without false pretence, 695 The friend of truth, the associate of sound sense, And such as, in the zeal of good design, Strong judgment labouring in the scripture mine, All such as manly and great souls produce, Worthy to live, and of... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1901 - 654 σελίδες
...side-thrust ; Nor those of learned philologists, who chase A panting syllable through time and space, Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece,...learning without false pretence, The friend of truth, the associate of sound sense, And such as, in the zeal of good design, Strong judgment labouring in... | |
| National Educational Association (U.S.) - 1903 - 1100 σελίδες
...etymology or structural analysis ; not the place "to chase a panting syllable thru time and space ; start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, to Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's Ark." In the second grade Longfellow's Hiawatha is read entire. The whole poem is idealized nature study.... | |
| National Educational Association (U.S.). Meeting - 1903 - 1098 σελίδες
...etymology or structural analysis ; not the place "to chase a panting syllable thru time and space ; start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, to Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's Ark." In the second grade Longfellow's Hiawatha is read entire. The whole poem is idealized nature study.... | |
| 1904 - 636 σελίδες
...which tells .... of learned philologists who chase A panting syllable through time and space, Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's Ark, and he will allow that if the bulk of the essay is serious, it is at least enlivened by some remarkably... | |
| William Cowper - 1905 - 716 σελίδες
...; 690 Nor those of learn'd philologists, who chase A panting syllable through time and space, Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece,...false pretence, The friend of truth, th' associate of sound sense, And such as, in the zeal of good design, Strong judgment lab'ring in the scripture mine,... | |
| William Cowper - 1908 - 632 σελίδες
...chasa . |A panting syllable through time and space.. [Start it at home, and hunt.it in, ihe_dark, u'o Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's ark ; But such as...learning without false pretence, The friend of truth, the associate of sound sense, And such as, in the zeal of good design, Strong judgment labouring in... | |
| George William Erskine Russell - 1910 - 548 σελίδες
...— " The band of learn'd philologists, who chase A panting syllable through time and space, Start it at home, and hunt it, in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's Ark." 457 But Cowper protested all in vain. Few indeed of as have not, in early youth, suffered grievously... | |
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