 | Thomas Parnell - 1722 - 240 psl.
...ev'ry fide, And glimmering Fragments of a broken Sun, Banks, Trees, and Skies, in thick Diforder run, To clear this Doubt, to know the World by Sight, To find if Books, or Swains, report it right ; (For yet by Swains alone the World he knew, : Whofe Feet came wand'ringo'er the nightly Dew) He quits... | |
 | Muse - 1757 - 248 psl.
...ev'ry Side ; And glimm'ring Fragments of a broken Sun, Banks, Trees, and Skies, in thick Diforder run. To clear this Doubt, to know the World by Sight, To find if Books or Swains report it right ; (For yet by Swains alone the World he knew, Whofe Feet came wand'ring o'er the nightly" Dew) He quits... | |
 | 1800 - 322 psl.
...ev'ry side, And glimm'ring fragments of a broken sun, Banks, trees, and skies, in thick disorder run. 5 To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right ; (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wand'ringo'er the nightly dew) He quits... | |
 | Matthew Gregory Lewis - 1801 - 266 psl.
...every side, And glimmering fragments of a broken sun, Banks, trees, and skies, in thick disorder run. To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right, (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew,) He quits... | |
 | James Thomson - 1803 - 268 psl.
...every side , And glimmering fragments of a broken sun , Banks, trees, and skies, in thick disorder run. To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight. To find if books , or swains , report it right , (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew) He quits... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 psl.
...every side, And glimmering fragments of a broken sun, Banks, trees, and skies, in thick disorder run. To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right, (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew,) He quits... | |
 | 1806 - 408 psl.
...ev'ry side, And glimm'ring fragments of a broken sun, Banks, trees, and skies, in thick disorder run. To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right, (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wand'ririg o'er the nightly dew) He quits... | |
 | 1806 - 330 psl.
...broken sun, Banks, trees, and skies, in thick disorder run. THE THE HERMIT. • sfti/ /-/ f'»"f ff>j / To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right; (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet cauie wand'ring o'er the nightly dew) He quits... | |
 | Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806 - 458 psl.
...side , And glimmering fragments of a broken sun, Banks , trees , and skies , in thick disorder run. To clear this doubt , to know the world by sight, To find if books or swains report it right ; (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, "Whose feet came wand'ring o'er the nightly dew) He quits... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 526 psl.
...lady and me concerning a passage in Parnell. That poet tells us, that his Hermit quitted his cell * to know the world by sight, * To find if books or swains report it right ; * (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, * Whose feet came wand'ring o'er the nightly dew.)'... | |
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To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right, (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew... 
