 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 - 204 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Richard Lederer - 2003 - 288 σελίδες
...Cowper once wrote of . . . philologists who trace 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. As an avid word hunter, I love stalking bestial words through time and flushing out the animals that... | |
 | Lyle Campbell - 2004 - 448 σελίδες
...The Role of Written Records 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. (William Cowper [1731-1800], Retirement, 691) 14.1 Introduction Philology has to do primarily with... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1902
...the enthusiasm 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.' And yet nothing is more conducive to sound reasoning than an accurate use of words, and an intelligent... | |
 | 1836
...application, Cowper calls " 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 Nonh's ark. The learning which has been most cultivated among us, is that whicli the same poet describes... | |
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