| Ignatius Donnelly - 1888 - 528 страници
...but his life was employed in teaching the method by which discoveries are made. This distinction was early observed by that ingenious poet and amiable...wilderness he past, Did on the very border stand Of the promised land, And from the mountain top of his exalted wit Saw it himself, and showed us it.1 Taine... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 530 страници
...wandering predecessors went, And like th' old Hebrews many years did stray In deserts but of small extent, Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last. The barren...he past, Did on the very border stand Of the blest promis'd land, And from the mountain's top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and shew'd us it. But... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1896 - 520 страници
...wandering predecessors went, And like th' old Hebrews many years did stray In deserts but of small extent, Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last. The barren...he past, Did on the very border stand Of the blest promis'd land, And from the mountain's top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and shew'd us it. But... | |
| John Theodore Merz - 1896 - 484 страници
...Bacon at last, a mi#lit y man, arose, . . . And boldly undertook tiie injur.d pupi1's cause. . . . led us forth at last, The barren wilderness he past ; Did on the very border stand Of the blest promis.d land ; And, from the mountain.s top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and shewM us it."... | |
| John Howard Bertram Masterman - 1897 - 282 страници
...predecessors went, And, like th' old Hebrews, many years did stray, In deserts but of small extent, Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last : The barren...he past, Did on the very border stand Of the blest promis'd land ; And, from the mountain's top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and shew'd us it.'... | |
| Yarnall - 1897 - 104 страници
...Society. One of his finest poems is addressed to this Society. It contains the oft quoted lines : *) Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last, The barren wilderness he passed, Did on the very border stand Of the blest promised land, And from the mountain's Wp of his... | |
| David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 450 страници
...but his life was employed in teaching the method by which discoveries are made. This distinction was early observed by that ingenious poet and amiable...Moses, led us forth at last, The barren wilderness he passed Did on the very border stand Of the blest promised land; And from the mountain top of his exalted... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 526 страници
...infinite expanse ; behind him a wilderof dreary sands and bitter waters in which successive genera1 " Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last, The barren...wilderness he past, Did on the very border stand Of the bless'd promised land, And from the mountain top of his exalted wit Saw it himself and show'd us it."... | |
| Henry Carrington Bolton - 1904 - 294 страници
...predecessors went, And, like the old Hebrews, many years did stray In deserts, but of small extent,— BACON, like Moses, led us forth at last; The barren wilderness he passed; Did in the very border stand Of the blest promised land. And from the mountain's top of his... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1905 - 484 страници
...wandring Predecessors went, And like th' old Hebrews many years did stray In Desarts but of small extent, Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last, The barren...he past, Did on the very Border stand Of the blest promis'd Land, And from the Mountains Top of his Exalted Wit, Saw it himself, and shew'd us it. But... | |
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