 | Martin M'Dermot, Martin MacDermot - Aesthetics - 1823 - 438 pages
...of such a creed, we may properly address that beautiful apostrophe of Pope : Go, wondrous creature, mount where Science guides, Go, measure earth, weigh...sphere, To the first good, first perfect, and first fair ; Go, teach eternal wisdom how to rule, Then drop into thyself, and be a fool ! A French poet, M. Millevoye,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...hurl'd: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! [guides, Go, wondrous creature! mount where science anoint. He was a lord fui fat and in good point. His eyen stepe, and rolling in followers trod, And quitting sense call imitating God ; As eastern priests in giddy circles run, And... | |
 | Classical philology - 1824 - 456 pages
...man doth busy apes, When they will zauy men. Mantón ар. Retrosp. xi. 131. Go, wondrous creature ! mount where science guides, Go, measure earth, weigh...Correct old Time, and regulate the Sun :-— ***** Go, teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule — Then drop into thyself, and be a fool ! Superior beings, when... | |
 | Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1824 - 476 pages
...honour to be, Mr. Editor, your very humble servant, JACOB CORCORAN. ON SCIENCE. Go, woud'rous creature ! mount where science guides, Go, measure earth, weigh...state the tides ; Instruct the planets in what orbs to rnn; Correct old lime, and regulate the sun ; Go, teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule, Then drop into... | |
 | Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1824 - 468 pages
...fires here rise, and there descend, Explain his own beginning or his end ? Go, wondrous creature ! mount where Science guides. Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides ; Instruct the planetsin what orbs to run, Correct old Time, and regulate the Sun ; Go, soar with Plato to th" empyreal... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 430 pages
...truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world ! Go, wondrous creature ! mount where Science guides, Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides ; NOTES. Ver. 20. Go, measure earth, #c.] Alluding to the noble and useful labours of the modern mathematicians,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world ! Go, wondrous creature ! mount where Science guides, Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides ; NOTES. Ver. 20. Go, measure earth, $•£.] Alluding to the noble and useful labours of the modern... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world ! [guides ; Go, wondrous creature ! mount where science Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides...time, and regulate the sun ; Go, soar with Plato to the empyreal sphere, To the first good, first perfect, and first fair ; Or tread the mazy round his... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...Go, measuie earth, weigh air, and state the tides ; Instruet the planets in what orbs to run, Correet Thomas Tegg perfeet, and first fair ; Or tread the mazy round his followers trod, And quitting sense eall imitating... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...wondrous creature ! mount where Science Go, measure Earth, weigh air, and state the tides j I nstruct the planets in what orbs to run, Correct old Time,...perfect, and first fair; Or tread the mazy round his followers trod, And quitting sense call imitating God ; As eastern priests in giddy circles run, And... | |
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Go, wondrous creature! mount where Science guides; Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides; Instruct the planets in what orbs to run, Correct old Time, and regulate the sun; Go, soar with Plato to th... 
