 | Robert Chambers - 1880
...restless in a worse extreme ? And for that lethargy was there no cure, But to be cast iuto a calenture ? Can knowledge have no bound, but must advance So far,...rather in the dark to grope our way, Than, led by af aJse guide, to err by day ? * Denham had just and enlightened notions of the duty of a translator.... | |
 | George Crabb - 1882 - Страниц: 856
...being a matter of purely personal influence, may be either for the benefit or injury of the person led. Can knowledge have no bound, but must advance So far...grope our way Than led by a false guide to err by day. DEN HA*I. To conduct, supposing judgment and management, and to guide, supposing superior intelligence,... | |
 | George Crabb - 1882 - Страниц: 856
...being a matter of purely personal influence, may be cither for the benefit or injury of the person led. Can knowledge have no bound, but must advance So far...to make us wish for ignorance ? And rather in the (lark to grope our way Than led bv a false guide to err by day. DEXBAU. To conduct, supposing judgment... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883
...restless in a worse extreme ? And for that lethargy was there no cure But to be cast into a calenture ? Can knowledge have no bound, but must advance So far,...dismal heaps, but would demand What barbarous invader saok'd the land : 150 But when he hears, no Goth, no Turk did bring This desolation, but a Christian... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1885
...for that lethargy was there no cure But to be cast into a calenture ? Can knowledge have no abound, but must advance So far, to make us wish for ignorance,...our way Than, led by a false guide, to err by day ! " " Cooper's Hill " was written in 1640 and published in 1643.* It is a poem of nearly four hundred... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1886
...restless in a worse extreme? And for that lethargy was there no cure, But to be cast into a calenture? Can knowledge have no bound, but must advance So far,...Turk did bring This desolation, but a Christian king j When nothing, but the name of zeal, appears 'Twixt our best actions, and the worst of theirs, What... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1892
...restless in a worse extreme ? And for that lethargy was there no cure, But to be cast into a calenture ; Can knowledge have no bound, but must advance So far,...our way, Than, led by a false guide, to err by day f Who sees these dismal heaps, but would demand, What barbarous invader sacked the land ? But when... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - Страниц: 772
...ignorance And these discov'ries make us all confess That sublunary science is but guess. SIR J. DENHAM. Can knowledge have no bound, but must advance So far...our way, Than, led by a false guide, to err by day? SIR J. DENHAM. The tree of knowledge, blasted by disputes, Produces sapless leaves instead of fruits.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1901
...restless in a worse extreme ? And for that lethargy was there no cure, But to be cast into a calenture? Can knowledge have no bound, but must advance So far,...dismal heaps, but would demand What barbarous invader snck'd the land? But when he hears no Goth, no Turk did bring This desolation, but a Christian king,... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1903
...images, as : — Nor with a sudden and impetuous wave, Like profuse kings, resumes the wealth he gave : And rather in the dark to grope our way, Than, led by a false guide, to err by day ; and sometimes by sheer vigour of imagery, as in his description of Strafford's eloquence : — Such... | |
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But to be restless in a worse extreme? And for that lethargy was there no cure, But to be cast into a calenture; Can knowledge have no bound, but must advance So far, to make us wish for ignorance? 
