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 wilderness he past ; Did on the very border stand Of the blest promis'd land ; And from the mountain's top of his exalted... The North American Review - Page 571843Full view - About this book
| Abraham Cowley - 1806 - 294 pages
...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 wilderness he past ; Did on the very border stand Of the blest promis'd land ; And from the mountain's top of his... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 296 pages
...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 wilderness he past ; Did on the very border stand Of the blest promis'd land ; And from the mountain's top of his... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...deserts, but of small extent," Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last : The barren wilderness he past ; Did on the very border stand Of the blest Promised land ; And from the mountain's top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and show'd us it. But life did never to one man... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 590 pages
...Moses enjoyed from the top of Mount Pisgah: " Did on the very border stand " Of the blest promis'd land; " And from the mountain-top of his exalted wit, " Saw it himself, and shew'd us it." Synthetical Methods, shew, in a still more explicit manner, the strong impression which... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1816 - 644 pages
...Moses enjoyed from the top of Mount Pisgah : " Did on the very border stand " Of the blest promis'd land ; " And from the mountain-top of his exalted wit, " Saw it himself, and shew'd us it." The metaphorical phrases of scala ascensoria et scala descensoria, which Bacon applies... | |
| John Moore, Robert Anderson - 1820 - 450 pages
...? • The same allusion, though probably Voltaire did not know it, was long •ince made by Cowley Bacon like Moses led us forth at last, The barren wilderness he past, Did on the very border stand Of the blest promised land, And from the mountain top of his exali«d... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 348 pages
...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 pass'd ; Did on the very border stand Of the bless'd promised land ; And from the mountain's top of... | |
| 1825 - 590 pages
...PRINTER. MECHANICS' MAGAZINE, CONDUCTED BY A Committee of Civil Engineers and Practical Mechanics. ' Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last ; The barren wilderness he past ; Did on the very border stand Of the blest promised land ; And from the mountain top of his exalted... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 454 pages
...which Moses enjoyed from the top of Mount Pisgah: " Did on the very border stand Of the blest promis'd land ; And from the mountain-top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and show'd us it." The metaphorical phrases of scala ascensoria et scala descensoria, which Bacon applies... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 450 pages
...which Moses enjoyed from the top of Mount Pisgah : " Did on the very border stand Of the blest promis'd land ; And from the mountain-top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and show'd us it." The metaphorical phrases of scala ascensoria et sepia descensoria, which Bacon applies... | |
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