 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...then embrace. But where the extreme of Vice, was ne'er agreed : Ask where's the north ? at York, 'tis on the Tweed ; In Scotland, at the Orcades ; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or I know not where. No creature owns it in the first degree, But thinks his neighbour farther gone than... | |
 | Hannah More - 1834 - 436 pages
...apply to enthusiasm, what has been said on another occasion : Ask where's the North— At York, 'tis on the Tweed, In Scotland, at the Orcades ; and there, At Greenland, Zembla But, it may be asked, has religious enthusiasm, after all, no definite meaning ? or are religion and... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1835 - 526 pages
...as we pursue it ; every one tells us it is farther off. " Ask Where's the North } — at York 'tis on the Tweed ; In Scotland at the Orcades ; and there At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where." It is, in short, a kind of terrestrial paradise, or land of faerie, no where to be found. Haying shown... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...embrace. 220 But where the extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed : Ask where 's the north? at York, 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland, at the Orcades ; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where. No creature owns it in the first degree, 225 But thinks his neighbor farther gone than he ; Ev'n those... | |
 | English literature - 1835 - 520 pages
...recedes as we pursue it; every one tells us it is farther off. " Ask Where's the North ?—at York 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland at the Orcades ; and there At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where." It is, in short, a kind of terrestrial paradise, or loud of faerie, no where to be found. Having shown... | |
 | Periodicals - 1836 - 676 pages
...Jameson, who follows sometimes one author and sometimes another. •A*k wherc's the North? At York, 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland, at the Orcades; and there At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows whcrp.' When Walker first appeared, the publishers trumpeted the book as Oie standard, and all the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...emhrace. 220 But where the extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed : Ask Where's the north? at Yerk, 'tis m Zamhia, or the Lord knows where. No creature owns it in the first degree, But thinks his neighbour... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1837 - 764 pages
...Whig or a Radical ; among Whigs or Radicals, the reverse. " Ask, where'a the North ? At York, 'tis on the Tweed ; In Scotland, at the Orcades, and there At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where." The standard of good or bad voting is in an elector's own bosom. A right vote, to any man of any politics,... | |
 | David Booth - 1837 - 360 pages
...abstractions : " But where th' extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed : Ask where 's the North ? at York, 'tis on the Tweed : In Scotland, at the Orcades : and there,...— At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where." When a word which is only used as an adverb becomes an adjective by giving it the comparative degree,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...then embrace. But »here the extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed : Ak where's the north Í at York, 'tis inst your worship when had Sherlock writ Î 1 >r Page pour'd forth the torrent of his wit a Or grant t No creature owns it in the first degree, But thinks his neighbour farther gone than he ; Even those... | |
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Ask where's the North? at York, 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland, at the Orcades; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where. 
