 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...but dreams, Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm. The first and wisest of them all profetw'd To know this only, that he nothing knew \ The next to fabling fell, and smooth W/IM «<U»} G 2 Athens, the eye ef Greece, mother of aits And eloquencp, native to famous wits Or... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...but dreams, Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm* The first and wisest of them all profess'd To know this only, that he nothing knew ; The next to fabling fell, and smooth conceits; 295 A third sort doubted all things, though plain sense; Others in virtue plac'd felicity, But virtue... | |
 | John Milton - 1815 - 244 pages
...bnt dreams, Conjeetnres, fancies, bnilt on nothing firm. The first and wisest of them all profess'd To know this only, that he nothing knew ; The next to fabling fell, and smooth conceits ; 295 A third sort donbted all things, thongh plain sease; Others in virtne plnc'd felicity, Bnt virtne... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...but dreams, Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm. The first and wisest of them all profess'd To know this only, that he nothing knew : The next...doubted all things, though plain sense; Others in virtue plac'd felicity, But virtue join'd with riches and long life ; In corporal pleasure he, and careless... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...but dreams, Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm. The first and wisest of them all profess'd n to the state ; Nothing to add, and nothing to abate....beast, each insect, happy in Hs own : Is Heaven unkind tilings, though plain sense ; Others in virtue plac'd felicity, But virtue joined with riches and long... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 356 pages
...but dreams, Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm. The first and wisest of them all profess'd To know this only, that he nothing knew ; The next...all things; though plain sense ; Others in virtue plac'd felicity, But virtue joined with riches and long life ; In corporal pleasure he, and careless... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...but dreams, Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm. The first and wisest of them all profess'd To know this only, that he nothing knew. The next...sense: Others in virtue placed felicity, But virtue join'd with riches and long life: In corporal pleasure he, and careless ease: The Stoic last in philosophic... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1823 - 220 pages
...but dreams, Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm. The first and wisest of them all profess'd To know this only, that he nothing knew; The next...conceits; A third sort doubted all things, though plain souse; Others in virtue placed felicity, But virtue join'd with riches and long life ; In corporal... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...but dreams, Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm. The first and wisest of them all profess'd To know this only, that he nothing knew ; The next to fabling fell and smooth conceits; 295 A third sort doubted all things, though plain sense ; Others in virtue plac'd felicity, But virtue... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 468 pages
...but dreams, Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm. The first and wisest of them all profess'd To know this only, that he nothing knew ; The next to fabling fell and smooth conceits ; 295 giceth to all men liberally, &c. Dunster. 293. The first and wisest of them alf] Socrates professed... | |
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But these are false, or little else but dreams, Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm. The first and wisest of them all profess'd To know this only, that he nothing knew... 
