 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1806 - 500 pages
...outwent he, Tho' former days produc'da plenty: For any man with half an eye What stands before him may espy : But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what...ancient fame Prophets and poets were the same, And ull the praise that poets gain Is but for what th' invent and feign : So gain'd our 'squire his fame... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham - 1809 - 428 pages
...obliquity of some people's minds is astonishing : they can see a parallel in a contrast; * Opticks sharp it needs, I ween, . , ' To see what is not to be seen.' Whether the peculiar eloquence of Lord Chatham and that of Lord Grenville, their sentiments, or their... | |
 | John Trumbull - 1812 - 166 pages
...out-went he, Tho' fprmer days produc'da plenty: For any man, with half an eye, What stands before him, may espy; But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what...of ancient fame, Prophets and poets were the same i And all the praise that poets gain, Is for the fibs they frame and feign: So gain'd our Squire his... | |
 | John Trumbull - 1813 - 124 pages
...h»; Though former days produc'da plenty i For any man with half an eye, What stands before him may espy ; , But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see...were the same, And all the praise that poets gain Is but for what th' invent and feign 5 So gain'd our 'Squire his fame by seeing Such things as never would... | |
 | John Trumbull - 1816 - 162 pages
...plenty i For any man with half an eye, What stands before nun may espy ; But optics .sharp it needs, 1 ween, To see what is not to be seen. As in the days...were the same. And all the praise that poets gain Is but for what th' invent and feign : So gain'd our 'Squire his fame by seeing Such things as never would... | |
 | Frederick Beasley - 1822 - 584 pages
...there is not, which supposes extraordinary power of perception, indeed. In the language of the poet: Optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen. On these accounts, there seems to be sufficient reason to conclude, that in reading with facility,... | |
 | Matthew St. Clair Clarke - 1832 - 864 pages
...which go<-s to render the passage of this bill unconstitutional, I •-hall merely observe, that " Optics sharp it needs. I ween, " To see what is not to be seen." If any thing be absolutely passed from one to another by grant, as is the case before us, the grantor... | |
 | David Meredith Reese - 1835 - 156 pages
...are concealed by a veil of prejudice," I fear that this veil yet obstructs your own vision, for, " Optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen." And when you think you see them, and attempt to put your finger on them—they are not there ! •... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1840 - 328 pages
...he, Though former days produced a plenty : For any man with half an eye, What stands before him may espy ; But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what...were the same, And all the praise that poets gain Is but for what th' invent and feign : So gain'd our squire his fame by seeing Such things as never would... | |
 | Benjamin Parsons (of Pensacola.) - 1840 - 408 pages
...believe, that neither they, nor any intelligent being, ever will be able to perceive what it can be, for " Optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen." I do not deny, that words may have an uncommon or technical meaning; but that meaning is always as... | |
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Though former days produced a plenty : For any man with half an eye, What stands before him may espy ; But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen. 
