 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
 | Edward Gibbon - 1896 - 466 sider
...With fragrance and with joy my heart o'erflow'd. Myself I then perus'd, and limb by limb Survey'd, and sometimes went and sometimes ran With supple joints,...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'erlsaw."4 It... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey, David Masson - 1896 - 456 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,...not." — Paradise Lost, Book viii. The who, the where (in any extended sense, ie, as regarded the external relations of his own country), and the from what... | |
 | John Milton - 1897 - 146 sider
...By quick instinctive motion, up T sprung, As thitherward endeavoring, and upright Stood on my feet. About me round I saw Hill, dale, and shady woods,...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. "... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1898 - 364 sider
...by limb Surveyed, and sometimes went and sometimes ran With supple joints, as lively vigor led; 15 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."... | |
 | Anna Miller Scott - 1900 - 76 sider
...turned, And gazed a while the ample sky, till, raised - 40 By quick instinctive motion, up I sprung . . . 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 What e'er I saw . .... | |
 | 1909 - 850 sider
...by limb Surveyed, and sometimes went, and sometimes ran With supple Joints, as lively vigor led: Hut who I was. or where, or from what cause. Knew not. (Paradise Lost. viii. 201-27 1.) To the modern poet the wonder is incomparably deeper than that On my opening eyes... | |
 | Helen Garwood - 1911 - 106 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." Laurence Binyon, "Death of Adam." "On my opening eyes The splendour of the world shone slowly In, Mingling... | |
 | John Webster - 1857 - 308 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." Laurence Binyon, "Death of Adam." "On my opening eyes The splendour of the world shone slowly fn, Mingling... | |
 | John Milton - 1925 - 450 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 tri'd, and forthwith spake, My Tongue obey'd and readily could name Whate'er I saw. Thou... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 412 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 tri'd, and forthwith Spake, My Tongue obey'd and readily could name Andthou enlight'nd Earth,... | |
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