| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 halaman
...respect for poetry. Chatham. His words are these: — 'I don't know what I may seem to the world ; but as public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retir sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 halaman
...for poetry. Chatham. His words are these : — ' I don't know what I may seem to the world ; but as shades, for speech assuming Held commune with him, as if he an sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than... | |
| 1845 - 334 halaman
...littleness ; and a short time before his death he uttered this memorable sentiment : — " I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself In now and then finding a smoother pebble or a pret tier shell than... | |
| Thomas Dick - 1799 - 392 halaman
...discoveries he had made, when he approached the hour of his dissolution, declared, " I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself with now and then finding a pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary,... | |
| Walter Savage Landor - 1846 - 618 halaman
...for poetry. Chatham. His words are these : — "I don't know what I may seem to the world ; but as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary,... | |
| Martin Garrett - 2004 - 284 halaman
...the work of others as President of the Royal Society from 1703. Newton claimed that "I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem only to have been like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding... | |
| H.E. Gruber, Katja Bödeker - 2005 - 564 halaman
...experience of the universe is shown in Newton's own remark, and its likeness to Blake's lines: I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem...myself, in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.4... | |
| Teun Koetsier, Luc Bergmans - 2004 - 716 halaman
...a vast ocean. He expressed it in one sentence: "I don't know what I may seem to the world, but, as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing...diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me".... | |
| Robert Fisher - 2005 - 268 halaman
...potential for discovery that is in every child when, shortly before his death in 1727, he wrote: / seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea...diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.... | |
| Tim Schilke - 2005 - 294 halaman
...parades from my childhood in Hales Corners, Wisconsin drove my actions. Growing up Red "I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than... | |
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