 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1824 - 498 pages
...also subsequent insertions. But those lines which give so original a view of genius in its infancy, A little bench of heedless bishops here, And there a chancellor in embryo, Sfc. were printed in 1742; and I cannot but think that the far-famed stanzas in Gray's Elegy, where... | |
 | 1831 - 426 pages
...for ill, or flowery false deceit. XXVIII. Yet, nursed with skill, what dazzling frniU appear! Even now sagacious foresight points to show A little bench...embryo, Or bard sublime, if bard may e'er be so, As Milton,Shakspeare, names that ne'er shall die ! Though now he crawl along the (¡round so low. Nor... | |
 | lady Pleasance Smith - 1832 - 620 pages
...sons trained up to be your colleagues and successors. If Shenstone could see in a village school, " A little bench of heedless bishops here, — And there a chancellor in embryo," so can I sec in my friend Mr. Henry, chaired (as doubtless he now is,) round the gardens at Allerton,... | |
 | James Edward Smith - Botanists - 1832 - 630 pages
...sons trained up to be your colleagues and successors. If Shenstonc could see in a village school, " A little bench of heedless bishops here, — And there a chancellor in embryo," so can I see in my friend Mr. Henry, chaired (as doubtless he now is,) round the gardens at Allerton,... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 346 pages
...Merchant passes, — " Probity and truth, " Prudence and patience, mark'd thee from thy youth." (1) " Yet, nursed with skill, what dazzling fruits appear...show A little bench of heedless bishops here, And here a chancellor in embryo, Or bard sublime, if bard may e'er be so." — SHBN'STONE. Thus she observes,... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1834 - 462 pages
...also subsequent insertions. But those lines which give so original a view of genius in its infancy, A little bench of heedless bishops here, And there a chancellor in embryo, fye, were printed in 1742 ; and I cannot but think that the far-famed stanzas in Gray's Elegy, where... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1834 - 456 pages
...also subsequent insertions. But those lines which give so original a view of genius in its infancy, A little bench of heedless bishops here, And there a chancellor in embryo, ife, wera printed in 1742 ; and I cannot but think that the far-famed stanzas in Gray's Elegy, where... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1834 - 466 pages
...also subsequent insertions. But those lines which give so original a view of genius in its infancy, A little bench of heedless bishops here, And there a chancellor in embryo, ty-c, were printed in 1742 ; and I cannot but think that the far-famed stanzas in Gray's Elegy, where... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1839 - 342 pages
...Prudence and patience, mark'd thee from thy youth." (1) " Yet, nursed with skill, what dazzling ftuits appear ! E'en now sagacious Foresight points to show A little bench of heedless bishops here, And here a chancellor in embryo, Or bard sublime, if bard may e'er be so." — SHENSTONE. Thus she observes,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1844 - 846 pages
...sagacious foresight points to allow A little bench of heedless bishops here, And there a chancellour in embryo, Or bard sublime, if bard may e'er be so, As Mil ton,Shakspeare, names that ne'er shall die! Though now he crawl along the ground so low, Nor weeting... | |
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E'en now sagacious Foresight points to show A little bench of heedless bishops here, And there a chancellor in embryo... 
