 | Abraham Cowley - English literature - 1806 - 294 pages
...the way, In which our wandering 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
...the way, In which our wandering 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... | |
 | John Moore, Robert Anderson - English literature - 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... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1843 - 706 pages
...expressed the nature of the service, which the great Improver of Learning rendered to his fellowmen. " 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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 348 pages
...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,...pass'd ; Did on the very border stand Of the bless'd promised land ; And from the mountain's top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and show'd us it. But... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Hebrews, many years did stray Ь deserts, bat of small extent, Bacon ! like Moses, led as forth at last;fl bout my head. The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their promiVd land, And from the mountain's top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and shew'd us it. But... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...predeeessors went, And, like th' old Hebrews, many years did stray in deserts, but of small extent, Haeon, : Of all thy blameless life the sole return My verse,...thy urn ! Oh, let me live my own, and die so too ! Sa» it himself, and shew'd us it. But life did never to one man allow Time to diseover worlds, and... | |
 | Industrial arts - 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... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - Great Britain - 1834 - 394 pages
...taken too severe a revenge for the exaggerated praises bestowed on hi m by our ancestors : — . , - ' Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last ; The barren...wilderness he pass'd, Did on the very border stand Of the blest premised land ; * And from the mountain top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and show'd us... | |
 | James Machintosh - 1884 - 310 pages
...have taken too severe a revenge for the exaggerated praises br.slowrd on him by our ancestors : — ' Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last ; The barren...wilderness he pass'd, Did on the very border stand Of the blest premised land ; And from the mountain top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and show'd us it.'"... | |
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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... 
