 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 600 pages
...The Amazon huge river, now found trew Or fruitfullest Virginia who did ever vew ? Yet ill these were, when no man did them know, Yet have from wisest ages hidden beene ; And later times thinges more unknuwne shall show. Why then should witksse man so much .,iisw»!iic,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 pages
...Amazons' huge river, now found true? Or fruitfullest Virginia who did ever view ? Yet all these were wheu no man did them know, Yet have from wisest ages hidden...misween That nothing is but that which he hath seen ? What if within the moon's fair shining sphere. What if in every other star unseen, \ Of other worlds... | |
 | George Canning - 1825 - 312 pages
...euer vew ? Yet all these were when no man did them know ; Yet haue from wisest ages hidden beene : And later times things more unknown shall show. Why then should witless man so much misweene That nothing is but that which he hath seene ? What if, within the moon's faire shining sphere,... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1826 - 650 pages
...language allied, nearly or remotely, to virtue or merit. In ours they are both of them named from chance. What if within the moon's fair shining sphere, What...star unseen, Of other worlds he happily should hear . . . for haply. The Greeks were more pious, one would imagine, than our ancestors. They entertained... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1831 - 1038 pages
...Amazon huge river, now found trew ? Or fmitfullest Virginia who did ever vew ? Yet all these were, when no man did them know, Yet have from wisest ages hidden beene; . And later times thinges more unknowne shall show. Why then should witlesse man so much miswuene,... | |
 | Robert Slater Bayley - 1834 - 334 pages
...the streets were then honoured. THE GUILDS. MOTTO. " Yet all these were when no man did them know. And later times things more unknown shall show. Why...misween That nothing is but that which he hath seen ?" SPENCEB. CHAP. VI. Cije <§utl& of tbe ??olp Crihttp. THE word guild, which some say is from a Saxon... | |
 | Robert Slater Bayley - 1834 - 362 pages
...honoured. THE GUILDS. •i •• « MOTTO. Yet all these were when no man did them know. And later timea things more unknown shall show. Why then should witless...misween That nothing is but that which he hath seen ?" SPKNCBI. CHAP. VI. <§ut'Ib of tfce feoip Crmitp. THE word guild, which some say is from a Saxon... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1839 - 444 pages
...Amazon huge river, now found trew ? Or fruitfullest Virginia who did ever vew ? III. Yet all these were, when no man did them know, Yet have from wisest ages hidden beene ; And later times thinges more unknowne shall show. Why then should witlesse man so much misweene,1... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1843 - 388 pages
...Amazon huge river, now found trew ? Or fruitfullest Virginia who did ever vew ? Yet all these were, when no man did them know, Yet have from wisest ages hidden beene ; And later times thinges more unknowne shall show Why then should witlesse man so much misweene,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 490 pages
...better sense avise, That of the world least part to us is read : And daily how through hardy enterprize Many great regions are discovered, Which to late age...unknown shall show. Why then should witless man so much mis ween That nothing is but that which he hath seen 1 What, if within the moon's fair shining sphere,... | |
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Yet all these were when no man did them know, Yet have from wisest ages hidden been : And later times things more unknown shall show. Why then should witless man so much misween That nothing is but that which he hath seen? 
