 | James Russell Lowell - Authors - 1887 - 408 pages
...us that, 1 ' Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go, And view the ocean leaning on the sky ; From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know, And on the lunar world securely pry." Dr. Johnson confesses that he does not understand this. Why should he, when it is plain that Dryden... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1888 - 608 pages
...these lines : 1 Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go, And see the ocean leaning on the sky ; From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know,...good pun in " Menagiana," I think on the word corps. Much pleasant conversation passed, which Johnson relished with great good humour. But his conversation... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 504 pages
...lines : — ' Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go, And see the ocean leaning on the sky ; From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know,...one good pun in " Menagiana," I think on the word corps.3 1 Dr. Johnson's memory here was not perfectly accurate : " Eugenio " does not conclude thus.... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1889 - 494 pages
...lines : — " Then we upon our globe'e last verge shall go, And see the ocean leaning on the sky ; From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know,...of puns, Johnson, who had a great contempt for that speL-ies of wit. deigned to allow that there was one good pun in " Menagiana," I think on the word... | |
 | James Boswell - English literature - 1890 - 568 pages
...lines : — • ' Then we upon our globe's last verge shall RO, And sec the ocean leaning on the sky ; f Ossian corp$.\ Much pleasant conversation passed, which Johnson relished with great good humour. But his conversation... | |
 | William Connor Sydney - England - 1892 - 484 pages
...show : — " Then we upon the globe's last verge shall go, And view the ocean leaning on the sky ; From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know. And on the lunar world securely pry.'" Sir Matthew Hale and Lord Keeper Guilford found time, even when busily engaged with legal business,... | |
 | Edward John Payne - America - 1892 - 646 pages
...be imputed : ' Then we upon the globe's last verge shall go, And view the ocean leaning on the sky : From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know, And on the lunar world securely pry.' of the western and eastern seas, which was involved in SooK L the Homeric conception of one circumambient... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1884 - 480 pages
...supplied. CLXIV. Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go, And view the ocean leaning on the sky : From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know, And on the lunar world securely pry. ci-xv. This I foretell from your auspicious care, Apostrophe Who great in search of God and nature... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1884 - 478 pages
...— D. CLXIV. Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go, And view the ocean leaning on the sky : From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know, And on the lunar world securely pry. CLXV. This I foretell from your auspicious care, Apostrophe Who great in search of God and nature grow... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1895 - 234 pages
...conscious : ' ' Then we upon our orb's last verge shall go, And see the ocean leaning on the sky ; From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know, And on the lunar world securely pry." These lines have no meaning ; but may we not say, in 20 imitation of Cowley on another book, " 'Tis... | |
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Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go, And see the ocean leaning on the sky ; From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know, And on the lunar world securely pry. 
