...gentle sea divide, Swift rushing circles curl on every side, And glimmering fragments of a broken sun : Banks, trees, and skies, in thick disorder run. To...this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if brooks or swains report it right, (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering...

...has the following passage : ' To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if looks and swains report it right : (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wand'ring o'er the nightly dew).' Is there not a contradiction in its being^j-rf supposed that the...

...JOHNSON'S Opinion ; 3d of May, 1779. " PARNELL, in his ' Hermit,' has the following - • ' passage : * ' To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books and main* report it right : (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wand'ring o'er...

...lady and me concerning a 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 stuains alone the world he knew, ' Whose feet came wand'ring o'er the nightly dew.)' 2 Dr. Percy, the...

...That poet tells us, that his Hermit quitted his cell ' to know the world by sight, To find i( bunks or swains report it right ; (For yet by swains alone...Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew).' I maintain, that there is an inconsistency here ; for as the Hermit's notions of the world were formed...

...Swift ruffling circles curl on evrry side ; And glimm'ring fragments of a broken sun, Banks, seas, and skies, in thick disorder run. To clear this doubt ; to know the world by sight ; To nnd if books or swains report it right ; (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came...

...gentle sea divide, Swift ruffling circles curl on every side, And glimmering fragments of a broken sun, icion brings; For though they dare not bark, they...blame them for intruding in your line; Fat bishopries \e quite his cell ; the pilgrim staff he bore, And fix'd the scallop in bis hat before ; Then with...

...gentle sea divide, Swift ruffling circles curl on every side, And glimmering fragments of a broken sun, Banks, trees, and skies in thick disorder run. " To...by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wand'ring o'er the nightly dew) He quits his cell ; the pilgrim's staff he bore, And fix'd the scallop...

...gentle sea divide, Swift ruffling circles curl on every side, And glimmering fragments of a broken sun, Banks, trees, and skies in thick disorder run. " To...by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wand'ring o'er the nightly dew) He quits his cell ; the pilgrim's staff he bore, And fix'd the scallop...

...gentle sea divide, Swift ruffling circles curl on every side, And glimmering fragments of a broken sun, Banks, trees, and skies in thick disorder run. " To...by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wand'ring o'er the nightly dew) He quits his cell; the pilgrim's staff he bore, And fix'd the scallop...