 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
 | Kenneth Knowles Ruthven - 1984 - 308 σελίδες
...philologists' mocked by William Cowper, 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.46 Such performances can be dazzling. 'To have no direct acquaintance with the Italian epic when... | |
 | J. P. Mallory, Douglas Q. Adams - 1997 - 890 σελίδες
...Acknowledgments 825 ... 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 Noahs Ark William Cowper, Retirement (1782) EDITORS' NOTE There are two types of encyclopedia or, at... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 σελίδες
...Academica, Ch. 8 16:28 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. William Cowper, 1782, Retirement, 691 16:29 An evil spirit seems to preside over all branches of clinical... | |
 | Jean Aitchison - 2000 - 300 σελίδες
...section, Reaching backwards 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. For centuries, scholars have pursued language backwards, as these lines from the eighteenth-century... | |
 | Michael Holquist - 2002 - 250 σελίδες
...eighteenth century wrote of 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. History does indeed witness legions of workaday scholars of language who conform to Cowper's negative... | |
 | Richard Lederer - 2003 - 316 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 - 478 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 - 704 σελίδες
...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 - 1048 σελίδες
...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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