 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...  The poetical works of William Cowper, with life, critical dissertation, and ... - Σελίδα 174των William Cowper - 1854Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | William Cowper - 1863 - 540 σελίδες
...devout and just, And stab religion with a sly side-thrust ; Nor those of learn'd philologists, who chase A panting syllable through time and space, Start it...souls produce, Worthy to live, and of eternal use ; Behold in these what leisure hours demand, Amusement and true knowledge hand in hand. Luxury gives... | |
 | William Cowper - 1864 - 454 σελίδες
...devout and just, And stab religion with a sly side-thrust ; Nor those of learn'd philologists, who chase A panting syllable through time and space, Start it...souls produce, Worthy to live, and of eternal use : Behold in these what leisure hours demand, Amusement and true knowledge hand in hand. Luxury gives... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1865 - 358 σελίδες
...must fall to the ground. If the science of Comparative Philology is to do nothing more than To chase A panting syllable through time and space, Start it...in the dark To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's ark ; — and if in that venerable receptacle for all ethnographic and philological theories we can only... | |
 | William Cowper - 1866 - 720 σελίδες
...devout and just, And stab religion with a sly side-thrust ; Nor those of learn'd philologists, who chase A panting syllable through time and space, Start it...learning without 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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 σελίδες
...devout and just, And stab religion with a sly side-thrust ; Nor those of learned philologists, who chase A panting syllable through time and space, Start it...souls produce, Worthy to live, and of eternal use ; Behold in these what leisure hours demand, Amusement and true knowledge hand in hand. Luxury gives... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 642 σελίδες
...devout and just, And stab religion with a sly side-thrust ; Nor those of learned philologists, who chase A panting syllable through time and space, Start it...souls produce, Worthy to live, and of eternal use ; Behold in these what leisure hours demand, Amusement and true knowledge hand in hand. Luxury gives... | |
 | 1896 - 712 σελίδες
...anapest in the wrong place or in the restoration of a dative case ; or •glory in the ability to " Chase A panting syllable through time and space, Start it...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
...devout and just, And stab religion with a sly side-thrust ; Nor those of learned philologists, who chase A panting syllable through time and space, Start it...souls produce, Worthy to live, and of eternal use ; Behold in these what leisure hours demand, Amusement and true knowledge hand in hand. Luxury gives... | |
 | William Cowper - 1881 - 562 σελίδες
...devout and just, And stab religion with a sly side-thrust ; Nor those of learn'd philologists, who chase A panting syllable through time and space, Start it...judgment labouring in the Scripture- mine, All such as manlv and great souls produce, Worthy to live, and of eternal use : Behold in these what leisure hou•s... | |
 | William Mathews - 1881 - 358 σελίδες
...colossal task, which would have taxed the energies of half-a-dozen other men, — patience "to chase A panting syllable through time and space, Start it...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... | |
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