 How have I trac'd them in the parish records With a fond microscopic industry, Which fools and half-philosophers call dull ! There the great grandsire of the younger stock Whence sprung th' Historian, planted his young offset From an old root, as antiquaries...  The lake of Geneva, a poem - Page 67by sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1832Full view - About this book
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...plough-tail memory, . Tlyit in their brains the fruitful seeds were working Of future European eminence 1 How have I trac'd them in the parish records With...industry, Which fools and half-philosophers call dull ! Tnere the great grandsire of the younger' stock "Whence sprung th' Historian, planted his young offset... | |
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...plough-tail memory, That in their brains the fruitful seeds were working Of future European eminence I How have I trac'd them in the parish records With...antiquaries tell us Of credit in cotemporary days. The poem then goes on to give an account of the author's visit, in his early days, to the old manor-house... | |
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