| English literature - 1803 - 434 pages
...philosopheu 1 contemplates two or three hours every day over a 1 sun-dial ; and is true to the dial As the dial to the sun, Although it be not shone upon. 1 Our younger students are content to carry their spe1 dilations as yet no farther than bowling greens,... | |
| English literature - 1803 - 420 pages
...philosopher ' contemplates two or three hours every clay over a ' sun-dial ; and is true to the dial As the dial to the sun, Although it be not shone upon. Our younger students are content to carry their speculations as yet no farther than bowling-greens,... | |
| 1806 - 312 pages
...horrouf o'er ' the woods." FRIENDSHIP. HUDIBRAS beautifully tells us, that a sin* cere friend is " True as the dial to the sun, " Although it be not shone upon." And another observer of life very philosophically says, " A false friend is like the shadow on a sun-dial,... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 532 pages
...might receive, we should still have the consolation being like Butler's steady and generous Royalist, " True as the dial to the sun, " Although it be not shone upon." We were well entertained and very happy at Dr. Nowell's, where was a very agreeable company; and we... | |
| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 562 pages
...^receive, we should still have the consolation of being like Butler's -steady and generous Royalist, " True as the dial to the sun, " Although it be not shone upon." We were well entertained and very happy at Dr. NowelPs, where was a very agreeable company ; and we... | |
| Spectator The - 1816 - 348 pages
...philosopher contemplates two or three hours every day ever a sun-dial ; and is true to the dial, " As the dial to the sun, Although it be not shone upon." Our younger students are content to carry their speculations as yet no farther than bowling-greens,... | |
| British essayists - 1819 - 370 pages
...ancient philosopher contemplates two or three hours every day over a sun-dial; and is true to the dial, " As the dial to the sun, Although it be not shone upon." Our younger students are content to cany their speculations as yet no farther than bowling-greens,... | |
| 1821 - 770 pages
...up of the Convolvulus, and Anagallis arvensis, commonly called the poor man's weather-glass;—the rain is now over, but as the clouds have not yet dispersed,..." True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shown upon ;" but enables us to form some estimate of the hour, even when the great luminary is invisible,... | |
| James Boswell - 1821 - 378 pages
...receive, we should still have the consolation of being, like Butler's steady and generous Royalist, " True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shone upon." We talked of a certain clergyman of,extraordinary character, who by exerting his talents in writing... | |
| English essays - 1822 - 492 pages
...loyalist in love ; the fervour of my allegiance does not depend upon my favour with the sovereign : True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shone upon. But the will of fate is irresistible, and I remain unmarried. In politics, I am, of course, a high Tory,... | |
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