 | John Aikin - Biography - 1802 - 686 pages
...poem entitled " Nosce Teípsum," acknowledges her favour : This mistress lately pluck'd me by the car, And many a golden lesson hath me taught ; - Hath- made my senses quick, and reason clear ; RetorYned my will, and rectify'd my thought. He endeavoured to ingratiate himself with the court,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 728 pages
...ourselves beyond all books, Or all the learned schools that ever were. This mistress lately plnck'd me by the ear, And many a golden lesson hath me taught; Hath made my senses quick, and reason clear ; Reform'd my will, and rect'ify'd my thought. So do the winds and thunders cleanse the air : So working... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 746 pages
...all books, Or all the learned schools that ever were. This mistress lately pluck'd me by the ear, Aud many a golden lesson hath me taught; Hath made my senses quick, and reason clear ; Reform'd my will, and rectify'd my thought. So do the winds and thunders cleanse the air : So working... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 420 pages
...men seek towns when foes the country burn : If aught can teach us aught, affliction's looks (Making us pry into ourselves so near), Teach us to know ourselves...books, Or all the learned schools that ever were. I know my body's of so frail a kind, . As force without, fevers within can kill ; I know the heavenly... | |
 | Books - 1822 - 384 pages
...men seek towns, when foes the country burn. If aught can teach us aught, affliction's looks (Making us pry into ourselves so near) Teach us to know ourselves...learned schools that ever were. This mistress lately pluck'd me by the ear, And many a golden lesson hath me taught ; Hath made my senses quick, and reason... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1822 - 392 pages
...men seek towns, when foes the country burn. If aught can teach us aught, affliction's looks (Making us pry into ourselves so near) Teach us to know ourselves...learned schools that ever were. This mistress lately pluck'd me by the ear, And many a golden lesson hath me taught ; Hath made my senses quick, and reason... | |
 | 1819 - 494 pages
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 | Richard Cattermole, Henry Stebbing - Christianity - 1835 - 402 pages
...teach us aught, affliction's looks, Making us pry into ourselves so near, This mistress lately pluck'd me by the ear, And many a golden lesson hath me taught ; Hath made my senses quick, and reason clear, Reform'd my will, and rectified my thought. So do the winds and thunders cleanse the air ; So working... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...day, Hope to restore the patrimony spent. If ought can teach us ought, afflietion's looks, (Making us pry into ourselves so near) Teach us to know ourselves, beyond all books, Or all the learned sehools that ever were. This mistress lately pluck'd me by the ear, And many a golden lesson hath me... | |
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If aught can teach us aught, affliction's looks (Making us pry into ourselves so near) Teach us to know ourselves beyond all books, Or all the learned schools that ever were. 
