 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
 | William Mathews - 1878 - 408 σελίδες
...from another, — " 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'e ark." A fundamental rule, to be kept constantly in sight by those who would not etymologize... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 642 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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 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... | |
 | 1896 - 712 σελίδες
...dative case ; or •glory in the ability to " 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." Every masterpiece of the classics should not be degraded into the mere pabulum of hypercritical professors,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 632 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... | |
 | William Mathews - 1881 - 358 σελίδες
...of half-a-dozen other men, — patience "to chase A panting syllable through time and space, Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark To Gaul, to Greece, and iuto Noah's ark," — but not enough to coax the shy trout from his hidingplace. To the opinion of... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 626 σελίδες
...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 the scripture mine, All such as manly and great souls produce, Worthy to live, and of... | |
 | 1882 - 630 σελίδες
...side-thust; 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 laboring in... | |
 | William Mathews - 1882 - 406 σελίδες
...from another, — " 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." A fundamental rule, to be kept constantly in sight by those who would not etymologize at random, is,... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 σελίδες
...by Pancirollus and others. 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. Retirement. Line 691. I praise the Frenchman,1 his remark was shrewd, How sweet, how passing sweet... | |
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