 | Frank Brady, William Wimsatt - 1978 - 655 pagine
...Truth mixed with error, clouds with rays, With Whiston' 7 wanting pyx” and stars, In the wide ocean sinks or strays.” Cowley seems to have had, what...performances by their just value, and has therefore closed his Miscellanies with the verses upon ¿ which apparently excel all that have gone before them,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1998 - 1540 pagine
...nights, And in the endless labour die. Who travels in religious Jars, (Truth mixt with errour, shades with rays;) Like Whiston, wanting pyx or stars, In ocean wide or sinks or strays. But grant our hero's hope, long toil And comprehensive genius crown, All sciences, all arts his spoil,... | |
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After this says Bentley *. Who travels in religious jars, Truth mix'd with error, shade with rays, Like Whiston wanting pyx or stars, In ocean wide or sinks or strays. Cowley seems to have had what Milton is believed to have wanted, the skill to rate... 
