 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
 | Familiar quotations - 1883
...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... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1885 - 364 σελίδες
...minutiae of those learned 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." 11. Clearly, then, at every ideal University time must be found for the study of the whole circle of... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1886 - 364 σελίδες
...minutiae of those learned 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." 11. Clearly, then, at every ideal University time must be found for the study of the whole circle of... | |
 | William Cowper - 1889 - 536 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,...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
...of a 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." We must remember that the language is but the conveyance for the thought, and that the two must go... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1891 - 1158 σελίδες
...hy Pancirollns 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 001. I praise the Frenchman,1 his remark was shrewd, — How sweet, how passing sweet,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895
...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... | |
 | Hiram Corson - 1895 - 153 σελίδες
...to study, with a class, a poem, as a poem, 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. And yet such unseasonable things are done, in these philological days, in the name of literary study.... | |
 | 1896 - 1178 σελίδες
...Biographia Literaria. Ch. 10. * * * Philologists, who chase A panting syllable through time and space, Start ct III. Sc. IL 74. Good, my lord, will you see (. COWPER — Retirement. L. 691. Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought... | |
 | Arlo Bates - 1897 - 260 σελίδες
...characterized by Cowper as 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. These gentlemen are extremely useful in their way and place ; but the study of philology is not the... | |
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