Canto The Seventh, V
Socrates said, our only knowldge was 'To know that nothing could be known;' a pleasant
Science enough, which levels to an ass, each man of wisdom, future, past, or present.
Newton (that proverb of a mind, alas! Declared with all his grand discoveries recent, that he himself felt only 'like a youth picking up shells by the great ocean-Truth.'
Canto The Fifteenth, XXVII
We'll do our best on 't:- March! march My Muse! If you can not fly , yet flutter; And when you may not be sublime, be arch, Or starch as are the edicts statesmen utter.
We surely may find something worth research: Columbus found a new world in a cutter, or brigantine, or pink, of no great tonnage, While yet America was in her non-age.
