 ... clime, And spreads the honey of his deep research At his return — a rich repast for me. He travels, and I too. I tread his deck, Ascend his topmast, through his peering eyes Discover countries, with a kindred heart Suffer his woes, and share in...  The Atlantic Monthly - Sida 301867Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | William Cowper - 1898 - 334 sidor
...countries, with a kindred heart Suffer his woes, and share in his escapes ; While fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home. O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, 120 Thy scattered hair with sleet like ashes filled, Thy breath... | |
 | William Cowper - 1900 - 346 sidor
...countries, with a kindred heart Suffer his woes, and share in his escapes ; While fancy, like the ringer of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home. O Winter ! ruler of the inverted year, 120 Thy scattered hair with sleet like ashes filled, Thy breath... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 sidor
...— to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd. Line se. While fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home. Line us. 0 Winter, ruler of the inverted year ! ' Line 120. With spots quadrangular of diamond form,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1905 - 716 sidor
...countries, with a kindred heart Suffer his woes, and share in his escapes ; While fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home. Oh Winter, ruler of th' inverted year, 120 Thy scatter'd hair with sleet like ashes fill'd, Thy breath... | |
 | 1905 - 408 sidor
...countries, with a kindred heart Suffer his woes, and share in his escapes ; While fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home. William Cowper. Travels by the Fireside HP HE ceaseless rain is falling fast, •*- And yonder gilded... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 sidor
...flesh, and of the spirit one. 1593 James Russell Lowell : Sonnet xxxiv. Ed. 1844 Fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home. 1594 Cowper: Task. Bk. iv. Line 118, Woe to the youth whom fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand... | |
 | James Champlin Fernald - 1914 - 762 sidor
...finds use in philosophy, science, and mechanical invcntiom, and how! EXAMPLES While , like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home. And as bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy... | |
 | 1915 - 574 sidor
...not confined to Norfolk. C'owper, writing in Buckinghamshire, says : — While fancy, like the ringer of a clock. Runs the great circuit, and is still at home. ' The Task,' iv. 118-19. CCB I have heard an old lady, who died in 1901, at the age of 98, near Winchcombe,... | |
 | Robert Ruxton - 1918 - 68 sidor
...golden throne of independence and wealth in the process. CHAPTER SEVEN While fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit and is still at home. — Cowper. Mine eyes he closed, but open left the cell of Fancy, my immortal sight. — Milton. Imagination,... | |
 | Eleanor Marie Ingram - 1921 - 324 sidor
...closed! Unbroken, majestic, the enormous Wall stood up inviolate. CHAPTER XXI " Fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home." — COWPER. THE uproar of rushing waters was still in my ears. But I was in my chair before the hearth... | |
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