 | Henry Howe - 1896 - 918 páginas
...author of " Hudibras :" " No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law ;" and " But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen." Another was Col. JOHN TRUMBULL, the painter, whose career was just beginning when the name was conferred... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 páginas
...Polite Conversation. Dialogue III. For any man with half an eye, What stands before him may espy ; But p. JOHN TRUMBULL — McFingal. Canto I. L. 67. SILENCE. But silence never shows itself to so great... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1897 - 554 páginas
...opinion of the law." Or this, — " For any man with half an eye What stands before him may espy ; But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen." Trumbull does not always spare his countrymen. In the following lines there is a very good hit at slavery.... | |
 | 1900 - 994 páginas
...has done it for the glory of the Society. We have not that keen vision pointed out in the couplet : " Optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen." But we know that every effort has been exerted to make the " forty-sixth annual " the most successful one... | |
 | 1900 - 1006 páginas
...has done it for the glory of the Society. We have not that keen vision pointed out in the couplet : " Optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen." But we know that every effort has been exerted to make the " forty-sixth annual " the most successful one... | |
 | Charles Frederick Johnson - 1900 - 572 páginas
...that never was nor would be. ******* For any man with half an eye What stands before him can espy, But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen." The speech of Honorius represents the feeling of the patriots with considerable vigor : — " And is... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 páginas
...Evcentricitiei of Jokn Edwin (second edition X vol. ip 74, London, 1791. JOHN TRUMBULL. 1750-1831. But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen. UiiFingaL Canto i. Line er. But as some muskets so contrive it As oft to miss the mark they drive at,... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1903 - 600 páginas
...opinion of the law." Or this, — " For any man with half an eye What stands before him may espy; But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen." Trumbull does not always spare his countrymen. In the following lines there is a very good hit at slavery.... | |
 | John Quincy Adams, Charles Francis Adams - 1903 - 220 páginas
...former days produced a plenty, For any man, with half an eye, What stands before him can espy, But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen." 3 To return. After we came out of the meeting house I stroll'd about for some time, greeting one friend... | |
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For any man with half an eye What stands before him can espy; But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen. 
