 | Leigh Hunt - 1848 - 328 pages
..." Search the moon by her own light ; To take an inventory of all Her real estate and personal ; — To measure wind, and weigh the air, And turn a circle to a square ; And in the braying of an ass, Find out the treble and the bass ; If mares neigh aZto, and a cow In... | |
 | Samuel Butler, George Gilfillan - 1854 - 318 pages
...it do, how long 'twill last ? Or if the Sun approaches near The Earth, how soon it will be there ? These were their learned speculations And all their...To make a powder of the Sun, By which all doctors should b' undone ; 90 To find the North-west passage out, Although the farthest way about ; If chymists... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1854 - 312 pages
...it do, how long 'twill last 1 Or if the Sun approaches near The Earth, how soon it will be there ? These were their learned speculations And all their...To make a powder of the Sun, By which all doctors should b' undone ; »o To find the North-west passage out, Although the farthest way about ; If chymists... | |
 | 1855 - 604 pages
...expressly satirizing the Society's weekly meetings and their mathematical and physical pursuits. " [Y V u }5 6 O t *UR? fb ͩ ~ t rv T ǔ \J l | s x 7ߗ ꁰ} F b ' k R ZP ܙ EH1; I v %2 A in) turn a circle to a square ; To make a powder of the sun, Hy which all doctors should b' undone... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1856 - 602 pages
...four expressly satirizing the Society's weekly meetings and their mathematical and physical pursuits. "These were their learned speculations, And all their...occupations : To measure wind and weigh the air, And torn a circle to a square ; To make a powder of the sun, By which all doctors should b' undone j To... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1855 - 264 pages
...if it do, how long 'twill last ? Or if the sun approaches near The earth, how soon it will be there? These were their learned speculations, And all their...shou'd b' undone; To find the north-west passage out, Although the farthest way about; If chemists from a rose's ashes Can raise the rose itself in glasses... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison - 1861 - 368 pages
...— '' Search the moon by her own light ; To take an inventory of all Her real estate, and personal ; To measure wind, and weigh the air, And turn a circle to a square ; And, in the braying of an ass Find out the treble and the bass ; If mares neigh a/to, and a cow In... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...Julius Cuesar, Act II. Scene 1. (Brutus to Cnssius, at a meeting of the Conspirators.) SQUARE. — To measure wind, and weigh the air, And turn a circle to a square. BUTLER. — A Satire on the Royal Society, Line 87. Circles to square, and cubes to double, Would give... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1866 - 324 pages
...sun approaches near The earth, how soon it will be there ? These were their learned speculations, 85 And all their constant occupations, To measure wind,...To make a powder of the sun, By which all doctors should b' undone ; 90 To find the north-west passage out, Although the farthest way about ; If chemists... | |
 | 1867 - 530 pages
...long 'twill last : Or if the sun approaches near The earth, how soon it will be here ? These were the learned speculations And all their constant occupations To measure wind, and weigh the air, i And turn a circle to a square, To make a powder of the sun, By which all doctors should b' undone... | |
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These were their learned speculations, And all their constant occupations, To measure wind, and weigh the air, And turn a circle to a square ; To make a powder of the sun, By which all doctors should b... 
