 | John Dryden - 1874 - 740 páginas
...supplied. 164 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. 165 This I foretell from your auspicious care, Who great in search of God and nature grow ; Who best... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 376 páginas
...supplied. 164 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. u ' Extra anni solisque vias.' — Vmo. \_JEit. vi. 797.] * BV a more exact knowledge of longitude.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 388 páginas
...supplied. 164 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. 165 Apostrophe This I foretell, from your auspicious care society. Who great in search of God and Nature... | |
 | Thomas Allan Croal - 1877 - 652 páginas
...be supplied. 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. DRYDEN. — Annas Mirabilis, 1666. OCEAN STEAMERS THE FIRST ATLANTIC STEAMER — THE 'GREAT WESTERN'... | |
 | John Dryden - 1878 - 368 páginas
...be supplied. 164 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. 165 Apoaropiu This I foretell, from your auspicious care Who great in search of God and Nature grow;... | |
 | Cyril Tourneur - 1878 - 242 páginas
...Annas Alirabilis: " Then we upon our orb's last verge shall go And see the ocean leaning on the sky, From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know, And on the lunar world securely pry." The unsteadfast man's control. He is now, I presume, beginning to touch on the corruption of the foremost... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 páginas
...conscious : — 'Then we upon our orb's last verge shall go, And see the ocean leaning on the sky; From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know, And on the lunar world securely pry.' These lines have no meaning ; but may we not say, in imitation of Cowley on another book, — '"Tis... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 634 páginas
...these lines:— ' Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go, And see the ocean leaning on the sky; From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know,...of puns, Johnson, who had a great contempt for that 1 Dr. Johnson's memory here was not perfectly accurate : " Eugenio " does not conclude thus. There... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 634 páginas
...lines are part of an allusion to the Royal Society, in the Annus Mirabilis, stanza 164. — Croker. species of wit, deigned to allow that there was one good pun in " Menagiana," I think on the word corps.1 Much pleasant conversation passed, which Johnson relished with great good humour. But his conversation... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1886 - 818 páginas
...Society. § " Then we tipon the globe's last verge shall £o, And view the ocean leaning on the sky, Fiom thence our rolling neighbours we shall know, ' And on the lunar world securely pry." and six to visit the Gresham curiosities, and broke forth into cries of delight at fmding that a magnet... | |
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Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go, And see the ocean leaning on the sky ; From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know, And on the lunar world securely pry. 
