 From these and all long errors of the way, In which our wandering predecessors went, And, like the...  Proceedings - Page 477by Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1878Full view - About this book
 | John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 pages
...object must command Each Judgment of his Eye, and Motion of the Hand. From these and all long Errors 6 of the way, In which our wandering 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 Wilderness he past,... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - English literature - 1885 - 728 pages
...had Raleigh, Ben Jonson, Selden, and Gondomar for his guests ! — JAMES RAWLEY, Secretary to Bacon. Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last ; The barren wilderness he pass'd, Did on the very border stand Of the bless'd promis'd Land, And from the mountain-top of his... | |
 | Ignatius Donnelly - 1888 - 528 pages
...neglect, have taken too severe a revenge, for the exaggerated praises bestowed on him by our ancestors: Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last, The barren...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... | |
 | Yarnall - 1897 - 104 pages
...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 - English essays - 1900 - 468 pages
...have taken too severe a revenge, for the exaggerated praises bestowed on him by our ancestors: — "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 top of his exalted... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - English literature - 1902 - 450 pages
...have taken too severe a revenge, for the exaggerated praises bestowed on him by our ancestors : — " 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 top of his exalted... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1903 - 526 pages
...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."... | |
 | English periodicals - 1903 - 636 pages
...attracted his attention and also that of Sir James Mackintosh occur in the fifth stanza, which runs thus : From these and all long errors of the way, In which our wandering predecessors went, And, like the old Hebrews, many years did stray In deserts but of small extent, Bacon, like Moses, led us forth... | |
 | Henry Carrington Bolton - Alchemy - 1904 - 308 pages
...errors of the way, «• In which oar wandering predecessors went. And, like the old Hebrews, many yean did stray In deserts, but of small extent,— BACON, like Moses, led ns forth at hut; The barren wilderness he passed; Did in the very border stand Of the blest promised... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - Death - 1905 - 484 pages
...his Eye, and Motion of his Hand. 5From these and all long Errors of the way, In which our 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 Wilderness he past.... | |
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