 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 Seiten
...forth at last;fl The barren wilderness he pass'd, Did on the very border stand Of the bless'd promiVd e nectarine, the curious peach, Into But life did never to one man allow Time to discover worlds, and conquer too ; ffor can so short a... | |
 | 1825 - 590 Seiten
...MAGAZINE, CONDUCTED BY A Committee of Civil Engineers and Practical Mechanics. ' Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last ; The barren wilderness he past ; Did on the very border stand Of the blest promised land ; And from the mountain top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and showed us it." No.... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 454 Seiten
...philosophy, to the distant view of the promised land, which Moses enjoyed from the top of Mount Pisgah: " Did on the very border stand Of the blest promis'd land ; And from the mountain-top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and show'd us it." The metaphorical phrases of scala... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 450 Seiten
...philosophy, to the distant view of the promised land, which Moses enjoyed from the top of Mount Pisgah : " Did on the very border stand Of the blest promis'd land ; And from the mountain-top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and show'd us it." The metaphorical phrases of scala... | |
 | Thomas Martin - 1835 - 392 Seiten
...expressed, by Cowley, in an Ode to the Royal Society, then lately founded: — ' BACON, like Moses, led us forth at last, The barren wilderness he past, Did on the very border stand Of the blest promised land ; And from the mountain's top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and showed us it. In... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 520 Seiten
...severe a revenge, for the exaggerated praise bestowed on him by our ancestors. " Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last, The barren wilderness he past, Did on the very border stand Of the blest promised land ; And from the mountain top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and showed us it." Cowley's... | |
 | 1835 - 916 Seiten
...the exaggerated praise bestowed on him by our ancestors. " Bacon, like Moses, led us forth atlas!, The barren wilderness he past, Did on the very border stand Of the I •!(•-! promised laud ; And from the mountain top of hi« exalted wit, Saw it himself, and showed... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1840 - 492 Seiten
...And, like lh' old Hebrews, many years did stray In deserts of but small extent, Bacon, like .Muses, led us forth at last ; The barren wilderness he past, Did on the very border stand Of the blest promised land And from the mountain's top of his exalted wit Saw it himself, and show'd us it. But... | |
 | 1840 - 700 Seiten
...And, liketh' old Hebrews, many years did stray In desert« of but small extent, Hacon, like Mosc», led us forth at last ; The barren wilderness he past, Did on the very border stand Of the blest prom is'd land, And from the mountain's top of his exalted wit Saw it himself, and show'd us Ц. But... | |
 | William Whewell - 1840 - 606 Seiten
...the barren wilderness, and ascended Pisgah; — Did on the very border stand Of the blest promised land, And from the mountain's top of his exalted wit Saw it himself and showed us it. The poet however adds, that Bacon discovered, but did not conquer this new world ; and... | |
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And like th' old Hebrews many years did stray In deserts but of small extent, Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last. The barren wilderness he past, Did on the very border stand Of the blest promis'd land, And from the mountain's top of his exalted wit,... 
