 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1767 - 288 pages
...frigid, and our torrid, zone ? Cou'd we not wake from that lethargic dream, But to be reftlefs in a worfe extreme ? And, for that lethargy, was there no cure, But to be caft into a calenture? •Can knowledge have no bound, but muft advance So far, to make us wifh for... | |
 | John Duncombe, John Hughes - English letters - 1773 - 998 pages
...xowf:**, Example, from Denham : Could we not wake from that lethargic dream, But to be reftlefs in a wprfe extreme ? And for that lethargy was there no cure, But to be caft into a calenture ? Can knowledge have no bound, but muft advance So far, to make us wifh for ignorance... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 486 pages
...frigid, and our torrid zone ? Could we not wake from that lethargic dream, But to be reftlefs in a worfe extreme ? And for that lethargy was there no cure, But to be caft into a calenture ? Can knowledge have no bound, but muft advance So far, to make us wiili for... | |
 | English periodicals - 1781 - 512 pages
...frigid, and our torrid zone ? Cou'd we not wake from that lethargick dream, But to be reftlefs in a worfe extreme ? And for that lethargy was there no cure, But to be caft into a calenture ? Can knowledge have no bound, but muft advance So far, to make us wifh for ignorance... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1790 - 372 pages
...hundred millions, " Could we not wake from th'at lethargic dream, *' But to be reftlefs in a worfe extreme ? " And for that lethargy was there no cure, " But to be caft into a calenture? " Can knowledge have no bound, but muft advance " So far, to make us wifh for... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1790 - 698 pages
...our torrïd zone ? » Could we not wake from that lethargie dream , » But to be reftlefs in a worfe extreme? » And for that lethargy was there no cure , » But to be caft into a calenture ? » Can knowledge have no bound , but mufi advance » So far, to make us vrhfi... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...frigid and our torrid zone ? Could we not wake from that lethargic dream, But to be rcftlefs in a worfe ian meafures, Soon he footh'd his foul to pleafurcs, War he caft into a calenture t Can knowledge have no bound, but muft advance So far, to make us wifh for ignorance... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 636 pages
...our torrid zone ? " Could we not wake from that lethargic dream, \ " But to be reftlefs in a worfe extreme ? " And for that lethargy was there no cure, " But to be caft into a calenture ? " Can knowledge have no bound, but mud advancp " So far, to make us wifh for... | |
 | James Roach - English poetry - 1794 - 272 pages
...frigid and our torrid zone ? Could not we wake from that lethargic dream, But to be refilefs in a worfe extreme ? And for that lethargy was there no cure, ' But to be call into a calenture? Can knowledge have no bound, but mu ft' advance So far, to make us wim for ignorance... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 574 pages
...frigid and our torrid zone ? Could we not wake from that lethargic dream, But to be relilefs in a worfc extreme ? And for that lethargy was there no cure, But to be call into a calenture ? Can knowledge have no bound, but maft advance So far, to make us wiih for ignorance... | |
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DO bound, but must advance So far, to make us wish for ignorance, And rather in the dark to grope our way Than, led by a false guide, to err by day... 
