With supple joints, as lively vigor led : But who I was, or where, or from what cause, Knew not; to speak I tried, and forthwith spake; My tongue obey'd, and readily could name Whate'er I saw. Memorials: And Other Papers - Side 78af Thomas De Quincey - 1856Fuld visning - Om denne bog
| John Milton - 1857 - 470 sider
...and limb by limb Survey'd, and sometimes went, and sometimes ran With supple joints, as lively vigour led : But who I was, or where, or from what cause, Knew not : to speak I tried, and forllnuth spake; My tongue obey'd, and readily could name . Whale' er I saw.... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1858 - 350 sider
...and limb by limb Survey'd, and sometimes went and sometimes ran AVith supple joints, as lively vigour led ; But who I was, or where, or from what cause, Knew not : to speak I tried, and forthwith spake ; MY tongue obey'd, and readily could name Whate'er I saw.... | |
| John Hanbury Dwyer - 1860 - 372 sider
...Birds on the branches warbling; all things smilsd, With fragrance and with joy my heart o'erflow'd. Myself I then perused, and limb by limb Surveyed,...who I was, or where, or from what cause, Knew not; to speak I tried, and forthwith spake; My tongue obey'd, and readily could name Whate'er I saw. " Thou... | |
| John Milton - 1860 - 424 sider
...and limb by limb Survey'd, and sometimes went, and sometimes ran With supple joints, as lively vigour led: But who I was, or where, or from what cause, Knew not: to speak I tried, and forthwith spake; My tongue obey'd, and readily could name Whate'er I saw. Thou... | |
| Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 sider
...and limb by limb Surveyed, and sometimes went, and sometimes ran With supple joints, as lively vigour led : But who I was, or where, or from what cause, Knew not. To speak I tried, and forthwith spake ; My tongue obeyed, and readily could name Whate'er I saw. "... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 488 sider
...and limb by limb Survey'd, and sometimes went, and sometimes ran With supple joints, as lively vigour led; But who I was or where, or from what cause, Knew...Book viii. The who, the where (in any extended sense, ie, as regarded the external relations of his own country), and the from what cause — all these were... | |
| John Milton - 1862 - 568 sider
...and limb by limb Survey'd, and sometimes went, and sometimes ran With supple joints, as lively vigour led : But who I was, or where, or from what cause, Knew not ; to speak I try'd, and forthwith spake . My tongue obey'd, and readily could name Whate'er I saw.... | |
| Henry Twells - 1862 - 262 sider
...limb by limb Survey'd ; and sometimes went, and sometimes ran With supple joints, as lively vigour led : But who I was, or where, or from what cause, Knew not. To speak I tried, and forthwith spake ; My tongue obeyed, and readily could name Whate'er I saw. "... | |
| John Green (unitarian.) - 1862 - 278 sider
...and limb by limb Surveyed, and sometimes went, and sometimes ran With supple joints, as lively vigour led : But who I was, or where, or from what cause, Knew not ; to speak I tried, and forthwith spake : My tongue obeyed, and readily could name Whate'er I saw.... | |
| James Hawkins (of London.) - 1863 - 126 sider
...sufferings of the human race. CHAPTER II. PHYSICAL CONSTITUTION. DEAFNESS AS A CONGENITAL DISEASE. But who I was, or where, or from what cause, knew not. — Milton. WE well know the human body is not less to be admired as a machine, wonderful and complicate... | |
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