| Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1924 - 440 pages
...which he will devote himself to another mistress, and, absorbed in the study of " Britannia's laws," " Observe how parts with parts unite In one harmonious...distinctly tend By various laws to one great end." These lines are usually attributed to the year 1741, when Blackstone entered himself at the Middle... | |
| Law - 1920 - 490 pages
...adieu ' to his Muse when ' wrangling courts and stubborn law ' demanded more of his attention. But welcome business, welcome strife, Welcome the cares, the thorns of life, The tedious forms, the solemn prate, The pert dispute, the dull debate. The drowsy Bench, the babbling... | |
| Susan Glover - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 240 pages
...Clear, deep, and regularly true, And other doctrines thence imbibe Than lurk within the sordid scribe; Observe how parts with parts unite In one harmonious...Alfred's piercing soul Pervades, and regulates the whole. (57-80) Like one of Eliza Haywood's exotic heroines, Justice, figured as an eastern queen, secludes... | |
| Patricia Wilhite-McCartney - 2007 - 178 pages
...graduation from Oxford. It reads in part, Then welcome business, welcome strife Welcome the cares and thorns of life, The visage wan, the pore-blind sight, The toil by day, the lamp by night, The tedious forms, the solemn prate, The pert dispute, the dull debate, The drowsy bench,... | |
| Kieran Dolin - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 26 pages
...unquestioning faith in its integrity: And other doctrines thence imbibe Than lurk within the sordid scribe; Observe how parts with parts unite In one harmonious rule of right. The interest of this poem lies in its accidental discovery through 'Fancy' and 'Art', that is, through... | |
| Law - 1825 - 938 pages
...Clear, deep, and regularly true, And other doctrines thence imbibe Than lurk within the sordid scribe ; Observe how parts with parts unite In one harmonious...wan, the pore-blind sight, The toil by day, the lamp by night, The tedious forms, the solemn prate, The pert dispute, the dull debate, The drowsy Bench,... | |
| English literature - 1808 - 262 pages
...regularly true j And other doftrine thence imbibe, Than lurk within the fordid tribe ; ,'JLlObferve how parts with parts unite In one harmonious rule of right ; See countlefs wheels diftinftly tend, By various laws, to one great end, While mighty Alfred's piercing... | |
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