 | Philip Schaff - 1910 - 830 דפים
...Amazon huge river, now found true ? Or fruitf ullest Virginia who did ever view ? Yet all these were when no man did them know, Yet have from wisest ages...misween, That nothing is but that which he hath seen. — SPENSER, Faerie Queene. No period in the history of the Christian Church has a more clear date... | |
 | Philip George and son, ltd - 1883 - 282 דפים
...bounds of this little earth, for Spenser hints that man will yet know of other worlds than this — "What if within the moon's fair shining sphere, What...star unseen, Of other worlds he happily should hear ? " Ere leaving this subject, you would perhaps like to read a little poem about our earliest colonists.... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1883 - 458 דפים
...allied, nearly or remotely, to virtue or merit. In ours they are both of them named from chance. • " What if within the moon's fair shining sphere, What...star unseen, Of other worlds he happily should hear," for haply. The Greeks were more pious, one would imagine, than our ancestors. They entertained the... | |
 | 1883 - 776 דפים
...application, is no other than that which has been so splendidly expressed by Spenser in the couplet : — " Why then should witless man so much misween That nothing is but that which he hath seen ?" The negative result produced in Chaucer's mind by this firm but placid way of regarding matters... | |
 | 1885 - 856 דפים
...know, And have from wisest ages hidden been, And latter times things more unknown shall show. Then why should witless man so much misween That nothing is but that which he has seen." MINERALOGY. THE IDENTIFICATION OF MINERALS. A person's first thought on picking up some... | |
 | John Joseph Halcombe - 1886 - 694 דפים
...forgetfulness of the abiding truth enshrined in the quaint words of an old Poet1: — "Yet all these were, when no man did them know; Yet have from wisest ages hidden beene; And later times thinges more unknowne shall show. Why then should witlesse man so much misweene,... | |
 | Theodore Thornton Munger - 1887 - 370 דפים
...staff seems bent in a pool it is actually crooked. Spenser touches the truth in the couplet : — ' ' Why then should witless man so much misween That nothing is but that which he hath seen ? " Turning from this philosophy in search of one more consonant with reason, we do not expect to reach... | |
 | John Nichol - 1888 - 236 דפים
...past, but the following lines, among many, are inspired with all Bacon's forecast of the future : — " Why then should witless man so much misween That nothing is but that which he hath seen ; What, if within the moon's far shining sphere, What, if in every other star unseen, Of other worlds... | |
 | John Nichol - 1888 - 270 דפים
...past, but the following lines, among many, are inspired with all Bacon's forecast of the future : — " Why then should witless man so much misween That nothing is but that which he hath seen ; What, if within the moon's far shining sphere, What, if in every other star unseen, Of other worlds... | |
 | John Nichol - 1888 - 246 דפים
...past, but the following lines, among many, are inspired with all Bacon's forecast of the future :— " Why then should witless man so much misween That nothing is but that which he hath seen; What, if within the moon's far shining sphere, What, if in every other star unseen, Of other worlds... | |
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Yet all these were when no man did them know, Yet have from wisest ages hidden been : And later times things more unknown shall show. Why then should witless man so much misween That nothing is but that which he hath seen? 
