 | 1827 - 558 pages
...pretty fable of the Philosopher and the Shepherd, which I learned in the nursery. Philoeopher. — Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil ? Hast thou old Greece and Rome survey'dj And the vast sense of flato weigh'd ? Hath Socrates thy soul refined, And hast thou fathom'd... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1833 - 286 pages
...were drawn from schools) The shepherd's homely cottage sought; And thus explored his reach of thought. Whence is thy learning ? Hath thy toil O'er books...Rome surveyed, And the vast sense of Plato weighed ? Hath Socrates thy soul refined? And hast thou fathomed Tully's mind? Or, like the wise Ulysses thrown,... | |
 | Anne Parker - 1835 - 302 pages
...drawn from schools,) The Shepherd's homely cottage sought, And thus explored his reach of thought: " Whence is thy learning ? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil ? THE SHEPHERD AND PHILOSOPHER. Hast thou old Greece and Rome surveyed, And the vast sense of Plato... | |
 | C. Adams - 1838 - 180 pages
...drawn from schools) The shepherd's homely cottage sought, And thus explor'd his reach of thought. " Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil? Hast thou old Greece and Rome survey'd, And the vast sense of Plato weigh'd ? Hath Socrates thy soul refin'd ? And hast thou fathom'd... | |
 | John Gay - 1838 - 240 pages
...drawn from schools) The Shepherd's homely cottage sought, And thus explored his reach of thought: " Whence is thy learning? hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil? Hast thou old Greece and Rome survey'd, And the vast sense of Plato weigh'd? Hath Socrates thy soul refined, And hast thou fathom'd... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...Shepherd's homely cottage sought, And thus explored his reach of thought : " Whence is thy learning ? i hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil...Rome surveyed, And the vast sense of Plato weighed ? Hath Socrates thy soul refined, And hast thou fathomed Tully's2 mind ? Or, like the wise Ulysses,... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1846 - 296 pages
...were drawn from schools) The shepherd's homely cottage sought; And thus explored his reach of thought. Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed...Rome surveyed, And the vast sense of Plato weighed? Hath Socrates thy soul refined? And hast thou fathomed Tully's mind? Or, like the wise Ulysses thrown,... | |
 | Dyer Hook Sanborn - 1848 - 300 pages
...Allusion is an expression which has reference to a well kn«wn matter of fact or of history j as, " Hast thou old Greece and Rome surveyed, And the vast sense of Plato weighed." — Gay. APPENDIX. SECTION I. 1. Words are derived from one another in numerous ways. 2. Nouns are... | |
 | 1878 - 668 pages
...FREDERIC BOASE. 35, Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster, SW The following are earlier than Lamb : — " Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil? " — Gay's The Shepherd and Me Philosopher (introduction to the Fallu}, 11. 15, 16. " I trimmed my... | |
 | John Gay - 1849 - 252 pages
...drawn from schools) The Shepherd's homely cottage sought, And thus explored his reach of thought : " Whence is thy learning? hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil 1 Hast thou old Greece and Rome survev'd, And the vast sense of Plato weigh'd? Hath Socrates thy soul... | |
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And thus explored his reach of thought: 'Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil? 
