 ... 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 - Page 301867Full view - About this book
 | William Cowper (the Poet.) - 1883 - 294 pages
...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, Thy scattered hair with sleet like ashes filled, Thy breath... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1883 - 782 pages
...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... | |
 | Sarah C. Winn - Poetry of places - 1889 - 112 pages
...imagination, through the eyes of poets, catch glimpses of foreign lauds ? While fancy, like the fingers of a clock, Runs the great circuit and is still at home. Cowpcr. Second Pupil : L/et others traverse sea and land, And toil through various climes, I turn the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1889 - 632 pages
...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... | |
 | Mark Pattison - 1895 - 570 pages
...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 the inverted year, Thy scatter'd hair with sleet like ashes fill'd, Thy breath... | |
 | James Champlin Fernald - English language - 1896 - 588 pages
...finds use in philosophy, science, and mechanical invention, and how f 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... | |
 | Samuel Train Dutton - Spellers - 1896 - 168 pages
...expanse enclosed by imaginary circles thousands of miles in circumference? While fancy, like the fingers of a clock, Runs the great circuit and is still at home. — Cowper. XXXIX. The zones are, North Frigid Zone, North Temperate Zone, Torrid Zone, South Temperate... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...Author's Way of Sending Forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim. Pt. II. While fancy, like the finger d n. COWPEK— The Task. Bk. IV. L. 118. Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home. o. KEATS... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 pages
...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. THE DOMESTIC WINTER EVENING. 0 WINTER, ruler of the inverted year, Thy scatter'd hair with sleet like... | |
 | James Newton Baskett - Missouri - 1898 - 370 pages
...runs." — THOREAU. " A grateful mind by owing owes not." — MILTON. " While fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit and is still at home." — COWPER. THE day after the next day, the boy was again upon his plough, and the black streak, by... | |
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