 | Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1806 - 500 pages
...Tho' former days produc'da plenty: For any man with half an eye What stands before him may espy : But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen. As in the days of ancient fame Prophets and poets were the same, And ull the praise that poets gain... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham - United States - 1809 - 428 pages
...obliquity of some people's minds is astonishing : they can see a parallel 'in a contrast ; . . ' Opticks sharp it needs, I ween, ' To see what is not to be seen.' Whether the peculiar eloquence of Lord Chatham and that of Lord Grenville, their sentiments, or their... | |
 | John Trumbull - American poetry - 1820 - 228 pages
...former days produced a plenty : For any man with half an eye What stands before him can espy ; But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen. * They, who wish to understand the nature, and modus operandi, of the Highland vision by second-sight,... | |
 | Frederick Beasley - Philosophy - 1822 - 584 pages
...there is not, which supposes extraordinary power of perception, indeed. In the language of the poet: Optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen. On these accounts, there seems to be sufficient reason to conclude, that in reading with facility,... | |
 | Matthew St. Clair Clarke - Banking law - 1832 - 864 pages
...which go<-s to render the passage of this bill unconstitutional, I •-hall merely observe, that " Optics sharp it needs. I ween, " To see what is not to be seen." If any thing be absolutely passed from one to another by grant, as is the case before us, the grantor... | |
 | David Meredith Reese - African Americans - 1835 - 156 pages
...are concealed by a veil of prejudice," I fear that this veil yet obstructs your own vision, for, " Optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen." And when you think you see them, and attempt to put your finger on them—they are not there ! •... | |
 | Benjamin Parsons (of Pensacola.) - God - 1840 - 408 pages
...believe, that neither they, nor any intelligent being, ever will be able to perceive what it can be, for " Optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen." I do not deny, that words may have an uncommon or technical meaning; but that meaning is always as... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1840 - 328 pages
...former days produced a plenty : For any man with half an eye, What stands before him may espy ; But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen. As in the days of ancient fame, Prophets and poets were the same, And all the praise that poets gain... | |
 | 1841 - 908 pages
...the Convention, p. 417. How often do public speakers credit Hudibras for the well known couplet, " Optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen !" It is from the First Canto of McFingal ; where Mr. Trutnbull is, with exquisite irony, extolling... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...days produced a plenty : For any man with half an eye What stands before him may espy ; But optice sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen. As in the days of ancient fame, Prophets and poets were the same, And all the praise that poets gain... | |
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For any man with half an eye What stands before him can espy; But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen. 
