 To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right, (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew...  Poems on Several Occasions - Page 136by Thomas Parnell - 1760 - 252 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1806 - 330 pages
...disorder run. THE THE HERMIT. • sfti/ /-/ f'»"f ff>j / To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right; (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet cauie wand'ring o'er the nightly dew) He quits his cell, the pilgrim-staff he bore, And... | |
 | 1806 - 408 pages
...sun, Banks, trees, and skies, in thick disorder run. To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right, (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wand'ririg o'er the nightly dew) He quits his cell; the pilgrim-staff he bore, And... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 456 pages
...sight, To find if books or swains report it right ; (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, "Whose feet came wand'ring o'er the nightly dew) He quits his cell : the pilgrim-staff he bore , And' fix'd the scallop in his hat before : Then with the sun a rising journey... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 526 pages
...passage in Parnell. That poet tells us, that his Hermit quitted his cell * to know the world by sight, * To find if books or swains report it right ; * (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, * Whose feet came wand'ring o'er the nightly dew.)' 1 Dr. Percy, the Bishop of Dromore, humorously... | |
 | Young gentleman - 1807 - 314 pages
...douht, to know the world hy fight, To find if hooks, or fwains, report it right; (For yet hy fwains alone the world he knew, Whofe feet came wand'ring o'er the nightly dew ;) jHe quits his cell ; the pilgrim-ftafT he hore ; And fix'd the fcallop in his hat hefore ; Then... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...sun, Banks, trees, and skies, in thick disorder run. To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right; (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wand'ring o'er the nightly dew) He quits his cell; the pilgrim staff he bore, And fix'd... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 664 pages
...Son, Banks, trees, and skies, in thick disorder run. To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right, (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew) He quits his cell ; the pilgrim-staff he bore, And... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...sun, Banks, trees, and skies, in thick disorder run. To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right; (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Wbose feet came wand'ring o'er the nightly dew) He quits his cell, the pilgrim-staff he bore, And lix'd... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 620 pages
...Sun, Jianks, tries, and skies, in thick disorder run. To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right, (For yet by swains alone the world lie knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew) He quits his cell ; the pilgrim-staff he... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 664 pages
...Son, Banks, trees, and skies, in thick disorder run. To clear this doubt, to know the world by light, To find if books, or swains, report it right, (For yet by swains alone the world be knew, Whose feet came wauderinz o'er the nightly dew) He quits his cell; the pilgrim-staff be bore,... | |
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