 From these and all long errors of the way, In which our wandering predecessors went, And, like th' old Hebrews, many years did stray In deserts but of small extent, Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last; The barren wilderness he past; Did on the very...  Character of Lord Bacon: His Life and Works - Side 198af Thomas Martin - 1835 - 367 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Emma A. Yarnall - 1897 - 254 sider
...contains the oft quoted lines:*) Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last, The barren wilderness he passed, Did on the very border stand Of the blest promised...of his exalted wit Saw it himself and showed us it. l) Masson's Life of Milton, vol. 6, p. 395. *) Cowley's Works, 1700, p. 35. But life did never to one... | |
 | John Howard Bertram Masterman - 1897 - 282 sider
...predecessors went, And, like th' old Hebrews, many years did stray, In deserts but of small extent, Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last : The barren...he past, Did on the very border stand Of the blest promis'd land ; And, from the mountain's top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and shew'd us it.'... | |
 | John Howard Bertram Masterman - 1897 - 308 sider
...us forth at last : The barren wilderness he past, Did on the very border stand Of the blest promis'd land ; And, from the mountain's top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and shew'd us it. ' Cowley died on July 28th, 1667, in his forty-ninth year. He was honoured with a tomb... | |
 | Yarnall - 1897 - 104 sider
...Society. One of his finest poems is addressed to this Society. It contains the oft quoted lines : *) Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last, The barren wilderness he passed, Did on the very border stand Of the blest promised land, And from the mountain's Wp of his... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 468 sider
...have taken too severe a revenge, for the exaggerated praises bestowed on him by our ancestors: — "Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last, The barren wilderness he passed Did on the very border stand Of the blest promised land; And from the mountain top of his exalted... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 450 sider
...have taken too severe a revenge, for the exaggerated praises bestowed on him by our ancestors : — " Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last, The barren wilderness he passed Did on the very border stand Of the blest promised land; And from the mountain top of his exalted... | |
 | 1903 - 636 sider
...predecessors went, And, like the old Hebrews, many years did stray In deserts but of small extent, Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last, The barren...his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and showed us it. But life did never to one man allow Time to discover worlds, and conquer too ; Nor can so short a line... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 526 sider
...infinite expanse ; behind him a wilderof dreary sands and bitter waters in which successive genera1 " Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last, The barren...wilderness he past, Did on the very border stand Of the bless'd promised land, And from the mountain top of his exalted wit Saw it himself and show'd us it."... | |
 | Henry Carrington Bolton - 1904 - 308 sider
...of small extent,— BACON, like Moses, led ns forth at hut; The barren wilderness he passed; Did in the very border stand Of the blest promised land. And from the mountain's top of bis exalted wit Saw it himself, and showed us it. But life did never to one man allow . i. Time to... | |
 | Henry Carrington Bolton - 1904 - 294 sider
...predecessors went, And, like the old Hebrews, many years did stray In deserts, but of small extent,— BACON, like Moses, led us forth at last; The barren wilderness he passed; Did in the very border stand Of the blest promised land. And from the mountain's top of his... | |
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