 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
 | 1892 - 412 Seiten
...very possible," he wrote to his friend West, from English Cambridge, in 1736,—"it is very possible that two and two make four; but I would not give four...of life, give me the amusements of it. The people around me, it seems, know all this, and more; and yet I do not know one of them who inspires me with... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1894 - 250 Seiten
...mathematics? Alas, I cannot see in too much light; I am no eagle. It is very possible that two and 15 two make four, but I would not give four farthings...yet I do not know one of them who inspires me with 20 any ambition of being like him. Surely it was of this place, now Cambridge, but formerly known by... | |
 | John Morley - 1894 - 618 Seiten
...For such learning Gray had neither taste nor patience. " It is very possible," he writes to West, " that two and two make four, but I would not give four...the profits of life, give me the amusements of it." His account of the low condition of classic learning at Cambridge we must take with a grain of salt.... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1894 - 400 Seiten
...able to give himself up to his friends and classical companions. "It is very possible," he writes, "that two and two make four, but I would not give...clearly; and if these be the profits of life, give me tlio amusements of it. The people I behold all around me, it seems, know all this and more, and yet... | |
 | John Cann Bailey - 1899 - 328 Seiten
...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...the profits of life, give me the amusements of it." We get a fairly good idea of one side of Gray from this; but we may add to it a more complete portrait... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1900 - 438 Seiten
..."a renegade Dominican friar." See Mason's note on letter xiii. infra. 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... | |
 | 1900 - 674 Seiten
...taste nor patience. " It is very possible," he writes to West, " that two and two make four, but 1 would not give four farthings to demonstrate this...the profits of life, give me the amusements of it." His account of the low condition of classic learning at Cambridge we must take with a grain of salt.... | |
 | Robert Farquharson Sharp - 1900 - 424 Seiten
...mathematics, which were so much insisted upon, he had no taste. " It is very possible," he wrote, " that two and two make four, but I would not give four farthings to demonstrate this ever so clearly." His delicate health made it additionally difficult for him to shake off the depression he felt amongst... | |
 | Lewis Campbell - 1901 - 340 Seiten
...letter to West in December, 1736, is perhaps not too familiar for quotation : — " 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... | |
 | Whitwell Elwin - 1902 - 616 Seiten
...the Review.] 3 [To George Montagu ; Walpole's Letters, ed. Cunningham, vol. ip 15.] AT CAMBRIDGE 453 the determination not to take a degree. " It is very...them who inspires me with any ambition of being like him."1 Contempt of knowledge is always based upon ignorance. In his riper manhood he regretted his... | |
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