 Alas, I cannot see in the dark; nature has not furnished me with the optics of a cat. Must I pore upon mathematics? Alas, I cannot see in too much light; I am no eagle. It is very possible that two and two make four, but I would not give four farthings...  The Quarterly Review - Seite 6herausgegeben von - 1854Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1827 - 468 Seiten
...pore upon mathematics ? Alas ! I cannot see in too much light ; I am no eagle. It is very possible that two and two make four, but I would not give four...who inspires me with any ambition of being like him. Surely it was of this place, now Cambridge, but formerly known by the name of Babylon, that the prophet... | |
 | 1829 - 558 Seiten
...pore upon mathematics ? Alas ! I cannot see in too much light ; I am no eagle. It is very possible that two and two make four, but I would not give four...the amusements of it. The people I behold all around oie, it seems, know all this and more, and yet I do not know one of them who inspires me with any ambition... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1831 - 282 Seiten
...I pore upon mathematics? Alas! I cannot be in too much light; I am no eagle.—It is very possible that two and two make four, but I would not give four...farthings to demonstrate this ever so clearly."— LETTERS. " To Oxford," says Gibbon, " I brought a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor,... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1831 - 338 Seiten
...pore upon mathematics? Alas! I cannot be in too much light; I am no eagle. — It is very possible that two and two make four, but I would not give four...farthings to demonstrate this ever so clearly."— LETTERS. B3 " To Oxford," says Gibbon, " I brought a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1835 - 342 Seiten
...fixed by a sublime geometry." See Mathias's Observations on Gray's Writings, page 68, 8vo.— Erf. not give four farthings to demonstrate this ever so...who inspires me with any ambition of being like him. Surely it was of this place, now Cambridge, but formerly known by the name of Babylon, that the prophet... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1835 - 328 Seiten
...universe fixed by a sublime geometry." See Mathias's Observations on Gray's Writings, page C8, 8vo.— Ed. not give four farthings to demonstrate this ever so...who inspires me with any ambition of being like him. Surely it was of this place, now Cambridge, but formerly known by the name of Babylon, that the prophet... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1835 - 334 Seiten
...on Gray's Writings, page 68, 8vo.— Ed. not give four farthings to demonstrate this ever so dearly; and if these be the profits of life, give me the amusements...who inspires me with any ambition of being like him. Surely it was of this place, now Cambridge, but formerly known by the name of Babylon, that the prophet... | |
 | 1836 - 558 Seiten
...pore upon mathematies ? Alas! I can not see in too much light ; I am no eagle. It is very possible that two and two make four, but I would not give four...who inspires me with any ambition of being like him. Surely it was not this place, now Cambridge, but formerly known by the name of Babylon, that the prophet... | |
 | 1891 - 874 Seiten
...pore upon mathematics? Alas II cannot see in too much light — I am no eagle. It is very possible that two and two make four, but I would not give four farthincs to demonstrate this ever so clearly ; and if these be the profits of life, give me the amusements... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1850 - 770 Seiten
...nothing is a most amusing business." — GHAT, 2, 3. See, too, p. 348, ibid. " IT is very possible that two and two make four, but I would not give four farthings to demonstrate this ever so clearly." —Ibid. p. 8. MORAL and intellectual improvement of animals, contrasted with that at which the COCK.CHAFFERS... | |
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