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" We take this to be, on the whole, the worst similitude in the world. In the first place, no stream meanders, or can possibly meander, level with its fount. In the next place, if streams did meander level with their founts, no two motions can be less like... "
The Omnipresence of the Deity: A Poem - Page 16
by Robert Montgomery - 1823 - 192 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 51

1830 - 622 pages
...which, we will be bound, none of the poets whom he has plundered will ever think of making reprisals : - The soul, aspiring, pants its source to mount, As streams meander level with their fount.' We take this to be, on the whole, the worst similitude in the world. In the first place, no stream...
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The omnipresence of the deity, a poem

Robert Montgomery - 1828 - 228 pages
...want no hymn to hear, or pomp to see, For all around is deep divinity ! The aspiring soul pants to its source to mount, As streams meander level with their fount ; While other years roll back their cloudy tide, And with them, all the bliss they once supplied ! — Oh ! if belov'd...
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The British Magazine, Volume 1

1830 - 824 pages
...burns within ; Till wonder starts with a bcwild'riiig fear, As if the shadow of a God were near ! " " The soul aspiring, pants its source to mount, As streams meander level with their fount." Is not the following a strange address to the Deity ? — " Yes ! pause and flunk, within one fleeting...
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The Peel Club Papers for Session 1839-40

Peel Club, Glasgow - 1840 - 256 pages
...5 1 . We should suppose that a new-born sun was no clearer than a sun that had attained its prime. The soul aspiring pants its source to mount, As streams meander level with their fount! ! ! P. 53. What consummate absurdity ! The soul panting to mount its source, compared with the stream...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 5

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1844 - 446 pages
...which, we will be bound, none of the poets whom he has plundered will ever think of making reprisals: "The soul, aspiring, pants its source to mount, As streams meander level with their fount." We take this to be, on the whole, the worst similitude in the world. In the first place no stream meanders,...
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Notes and Queries

1884 - 672 pages
...positive an assertion as regards the meandering streams. These are Montgomery's lines: — " The BOU!, aspiring, pants its source to mount, As streams meander level with their fount." And the criticism of Macaulay upon them I should have supposed was sufficiently familiar. JAMES DALLAS....
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Temple Bar, Volume 76

George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1886 - 604 pages
...penned. Every one knows Macaulay's observation upon a certain simile in Hobert Montgomery's poem. " The Soul aspiring pants its source to mount, As streams meander level with their fount." " We take this," says Macaulay, with characteristic energy, " to be on the whole the worst similitude...
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Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 1-2

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 1102 pages
...none of the poets whom he has plundered will ever think of making reprisals : " The soul, aipiring, pants its source to mount, As streams meander level with their fount." We take this to be, on the whole, the worst simihtude in the world. In the first place, no stream meanders,...
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Cui Bono?: University Education : a Letter to a Catholic Layman

Henry Augustus Rawes - 1864 - 90 pages
...that I have eA-er seen, as far as I can remember, except that celebrated one of Mr. Montgomery's, " The soul aspiring pants its source to mount, As streams meander level with their fount." . _ . Purther, no outwork of the Church ever has been taken or ever can be taken. Be assured of that....
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Essays Upon History and Politics

Thomas Edward Kebbel - 1864 - 432 pages
...throughout, and the style much more so than is commonly supposed. For instance, of the poet's lines — The soul aspiring pants its source to mount, As streams meander level with their fount. " We take this to be," says Macaulay, " the worst similitude in the world. In the first place, no stream...
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