 | Samuel Butler, Robert Thyer - 1759 - 538 Seiten
...And Nafral Hiftory a Gazette Of Tales ftupendous, andfar-fet; 515 Hold no Truth worthy to be known, That is not huge, and over-grown, And explicate Appearances, Not as they are, but as they pleafet In vain jlrive Nature tofuborn, 510 And, for their Pains, are paid with Scorn. uleful Philofophy,... | |
 | Samuel Butler, Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 414 Seiten
...news, And nat'ral hist'ry a Gazette Of tales stupendous and far-set ; Hold no truth worthy to he known, That is not huge and over-grown, And explicate appearances,...suborn, And, for their pains, are paid with scorn. 520 V. 5t)Q. 510.] From this mor.il application of the whole, one may observe that the Poet's real intention,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 Seiten
...news, And natural history a Gazette Of tales stupendous and far-fet, Hold no truth worthy to be known, That is not huge and overgrown, And explicate appearances,...they please, In vain strive Nature to suborn, And, fur their pains, are paid with scorn. THE ELEPHANT IN THE MOON. IN LONG VERSE. A TWTCOUS, leam'd society,... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 666 Seiten
...natural history, a gazette Of tales stupenduous and far-fet ; Hold no truth worthy to be known, 515 That is not huge and overgrown, And explicate appearances, Not as they are, bnt as they please, In vain strive nature to suborn, And for, their pains, are paid with scorn. 520... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - 1815 - 616 Seiten
...news, And nat'ral history a gazette Of tales stupendous and far fet ; Hold no truth worthy to be known, That is not huge and overgrown, And explicate appearances,...suborn, And, for their pains, are paid with scorn/' The famous Cowley, who was one of the earliest members, addressed a complimentary poem to the Royal... | |
 | DeWitt Clinton, Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - 1815 - 160 Seiten
...news, And nat'ral history a gazette Of tales stupendous and far fet ; Hold no truth worthy to he known, That is not huge and overgrown, And explicate appearances, Not as they are, hut as they please, In vain strive nature to suhorn, And, for their pains, are paid with acorn." The... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1816 - 304 Seiten
...natural history, a gazette Of tales stupenduous and far-fet ; Hold no truth worthy to be known, 515 That is not huge and overgrown, And explicate appearances,...suborn, And for, their pains, are paid with scorn. 520 520. I now leave the reader to his own reflections on this singularly ingenious Poem, making this remark... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1819 - 644 Seiten
...news, And natural history a Gazette Of tales stupendous and far-fet, Hold no truth worthy to be known, That is not huge and overgrown, And explicate appearances, Not as they are, but as they please, In rain strive Nature to suborn, And, for their pains, are paid with scorn. THE ELEPHANT IN THE MOON.... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1827 - 344 Seiten
...superstitious and unphilosophical credulity, which deserved very well to be laughed at. — (TurER.) 34 And explicate appearances, Not as they are, but as...suborn, And, for their pains, are paid with scorn. 520 THE ELEPHANT IN THE MOON. IN LONG VERSE. *A VIRTUOUS, learn'd Society, of late The Pride and Glory... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1830 - 620 Seiten
...Make natural history a gazette Of tales stupendous and far-fetched; Hold no truth worthy to be known, That is not huge and overgrown, And explicate appearances, Not as they are, but as they please.' * The necessity of closely studying the changes still going on in * Butler.— Elephant in the Moon,... | |
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That is not huge and over-grown, And explicate appearances, Not as they are, but as they please ; In vain strive Nature to suborn, And, for their pains, are paid with scorn. 
