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" in thick diforder run. To clear this doubt, to know the world by fight, To find if books, or fwains, report it right, (For yet by fwains alone the world he knew, Whofe feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew) He quits his cell; the "
The Works of the English Poets: Parnell and A. Philips - Page 81
by Samuel Johnson - 1779
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The Edinburgh Entertainer: Containing Historical and Poetical Collections ...

1750 - 372 pages
...a broken fun, Banks, trees, and fkies, in thick difordex To clear this doubt, to know the world by To find if books, or fwains, report it right; (For...by fwains alone the world he knew, "Whofe feet came wand'ring o'er the nightly light, dew) He quits his cell; the pilgrim-flaff he bore,, And fix'd the...
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The seraph, a collection of divine hymns and poems from the best authors

Seraph - 1754 - 294 pages
...well : Remote from man, witli God he pafs'd the days, Pray'rall his bus'nefs, all his plcafure praife, To clear this doubt, to know the world by fight, To...right; (For yet by fwains alone the world he knew, VVhofefcet came wand'ring o'er the nightly dew.) He quits his cell; the pilgrim-ftaff he bore, And...
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The muse in a moral humour: being a collection of tales, fables, pastorals ...

Muse - 1757 - 248 pages
...ruffling Circles curl on ev'ry Side; And glimm'ring Fragments of a broken Sun, Banks, Trees, and Skies, in thick Diforder run. To clear this Doubt, to know the World by Sight, To find if Books or Swains report it right; (For yet by Swains alone the World he knew, Whole...
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The art of poetry on a new plan, illustrated with a great variety of ...

Art - 1762 - 290 pages
...well. Remote from man, with God he pafs'd the days,Pray'r all his bus'nefs, all his pleafure praife. To clear this doubt, to know the world by fight, To find if books, or fwains report it right j (For yet by fwains alone the world he knew, Whofe feet came wand'ring o'er the nightly dew) He quits...
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The Beauties of English Poesy, Volume 1

Oliver Goldsmith - 1767 - 294 pages
...ruffling circles curl on ev'ry fide, And glimmering fragments of a broken fun, Banks, feas, and fkies, in thick diforder run. To clear this doubt, to know...by fwains alone the world he knew, Whofe feet came wand'ring o'er the nightly dew) He quits his cell; the Pilgrim-ftaff he bore. And fix'd the Scallop...
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The Works: In Verse and Prose, of Dr. Thomas Parnell, ... Enlarged with ...

Thomas Parnell - 1767 - 250 pages
...ev'ry fide, And glimmering fragments of a brok n fun, Banks, trees, and fkies in thick diforder rim. To clear this doubt, to know the world by fight, To...by fwains alone the world he knew, Whofe feet came wand'ring o'er the nightly dew) He quits his cell; the pilgrim-ftaffhe bore, And fix'd the fcallop...
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Poems on Several Occasions

Thomas Parnell - 1770 - 294 pages
...126 POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. And glimmering fragments of a broken fun, Banks, trees, and fkies, in thick diforder run. To clear this doubt, to know the world by fight, To find if books, or fwayis, report it right, (For yet by fwains alonethe world he knew, Whofe feet came wandVing o'er the...
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A collection of poems on divine and moral subjects, selected from various ...

William Giles (didactic writer) - 1775 - 336 pages
...ruffling circles curl on ev'ry fide; And glimm'ring fragments of a broken fun, Banks, trees, and flcies, in thick diforder run. To clear this doubt, to know...by fwains alone the world he knew, Whofe feet came wand'ring o'er the nightly dew) He quits his cell; the pilgrim-ftafF he bore, And fix'd the fcallop...
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How to Read and Declaim

Grenville Kleiser - 1779 - 422 pages
...ruffling circles curl on every fide, And glimmering'fragments of a broken fun, Banks, trees, and fkies, in thick diforder run. To clear this doubt, to know the world by'fight, To find if.books,.or fwains, report it right, (For yet by fwains alone the world he knew,...
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The Lady's Poetical Magazine: Or, Beauties of British Poetry, Volume 2

1781 - 552 pages
...ruffling circles curl on ev'ry fide, And glimmering fragments of a broken fun, Banks, trees, and fkies, in thick diforder run. To clear this doubt, to know...(For yet by. fwains alone the world he knew, Whofe fept came wand'rin^ o'er the nightly dew) He quits his cell; the Pilgrim-ftaff he bore, And fix'd the...
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