 | John Aikin - 1820 - 826 páginas
...supply'd. ilicu we upon our globe's last verge shall go, And view the ocean leaning on the sky : ?rom thence our rolling neighbours we shall know, And on the lunar world securely pry. l"h" I foretell from your auspicious care, Who great in search of God and Nature grow ; Who best your... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 376 páginas
...more." Nay, Dryden, in his poem on the Royal Society, has these lines : ' Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go, And see the ocean leaning on...shall know, And on the lunar world securely pry.' " Talking of puns, Johnson, who had a great contempt for that species of wit, deigned to allow that... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 356 páginas
...Where some may gain, and all may be supply'd. Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go, And view the ocean leaning on the sky : From thence our rolling...we shall know, And on the lunar world securely pry. This I foretell from your auspicious care, Who great in search of God and Nature grow ; Who best your... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 474 páginas
...air; My flaming sword above them to display, All keen, and ground upon the edge of day. And sometimes it issued in absurdities, of which perhaps he was not conscious: Then we u|>on our orb's last verge shall go, And see the ocean leaning on the sky ; From thence our rolling... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 472 páginas
...more,'1 Nay, Dryden, in his poem on the Royal Society^ has these lines : ' Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go, ' And see the ocean leaning on...shall know, ' And on the lunar world securely pry.'" 1 Dr. Johnson's memory here was not perfectly accurate : " Eugenio " does not conclude thus. There... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 480 páginas
...more,' 1 Nay, Dryden, in his poem on the Royal Society,1 has these lines: ' Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go, ' And see the ocean leaning on...shall know, ' And on the lunar world securely pry.'" 1 Dr. Johnson's memory here was not perfectly accurate : " Eugenio " does not conclude thus. There... | |
 | 1822 - 320 páginas
...; My flaming sword above them to display, All keen, and ground upon the edge of day.' And sometimes it issued in absurdities, of which perhaps he was not conscious: ' Then we upon onr orb's last verge shall go, And see the ocean leaning on the sky ; From thence our rolling neighbours... | |
 | James Boswell - 1823 - 490 páginas
...more *.' Nay, Dryden, in his poem on the Royal Society, has these lines: ' Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go, And see the ocean leaning on...shall know, And on the lunar world securely pry.'" Talking of puns, Johnson, who had a great contempt for .that species of wit, deigned to allow that... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 410 páginas
...Where some may gain, and all may be supplied. Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go, And view the ocean leaning on the sky ; From thence our rolling...we shall know, And on the lunar world securely pry. This I foretel, from your auspicious care, Who great in search of God and Nature grow ; Who best your... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 478 páginas
...air; My flaming sword above them to display, All keen, and ground upon the edge of day. And sometimes it issued in absurdities, of which perhaps he was not conscious: Then we ujxin our orb's last verge shall go, And see the ocean leaning on the sky ; From thence our rolling... | |
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Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go And view the ocean leaning on the sky : From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know And on the lunar world securely pry. 
