 No ancient sybil, famed in rhyme, Saw deeper in the womb of time; No block in old Dodona's grove Could ever more orac'lar prove. Nor only saw he all that could be, But much that never was, nor would be; Whereby all prophets far outwent he, Though former...  M'Fingal: A Modern Epic Poem - Página 24por John Trumbull - 1856 - 183 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 páginas
...Urbanica. 0, give me the sweet shady side of Pall Mall ! Toien and Country. JOHN TRUMBULL. 1750-1831. But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen. McFinyal. Canto i. Line 67. But as some muskets so contrive it As oft to miss the mark they drive at,... | |
 | Harriet B. Swineford - 1883 - 302 páginas
...Yale. Became a judge of the superior court in 1801. Author of McFmgal, The Progress of Dullness, etc. But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen. McFingal. No man e'er felt the halter draw With good opinion of the law. Jowph Hopkinson (1770-1842).—... | |
 | Timothy Harley - 1885 - 326 páginas
...surface of the satellite of our little earth."425 Some cynic may interpose with the quotation, — " But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen." 426 True, but it remains to be shown that there is nothing to be seen beyond what we see. We are not... | |
 | New York State Medical Association - 1885 - 674 páginas
...alleged discoveries, knowing that some observers have that keen vision pointed out in the couplet: " Optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen." We not only twine fadeless chaplets for the modest brows of those who unearth a new bacillus whose... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - 1886 - 678 páginas
...I am the object of unprincipled persecution ; but I console myself with these lines of the poet — But optics sharp it needs, I ween. To see what is not to be seen ; and with this belief, that in spite of calumny the friends I love and esteem will continue to love... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1887 - 300 páginas
...With good opinion of the law." Or this : " 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." Trumbull's wit did not spare the vulnerable points of his own countrymen, as in his sharp skit at slavery... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - 1889 - 848 páginas
...author of " Hudibras " : " No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law," and, ' But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen." TRUMBULL After the peace, with David Humphreys, Joel Barlow, and Lemuel Hopkins, he wrote a series... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1889 - 468 páginas
...of his lines quoted indiscriminately with Butler's best : — " What has posterity done for us ?" " Optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen." "A thief ne'er felt the halter draw With good opinion of the law." Ten years after the appearance of... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1889 - 466 páginas
...of his lines quoted indiscriminately with Butler's best: — " What has posterity done for us ? " " Optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen." " A thief ne'er felt the halter draw With good opinion of the law." Ten years after the appearance... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1891 - 298 páginas
...'With good opinion of the law." Or this: " 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." Trumbull's wit did not spare the vulnerable points of his own countrymen, as in his sharp skit at slavery... | |
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