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" When wilt thou shake off this Pedantery, Of being taught by sense, and Fantasie? Thou look'st through spectacles; small things seeme great Below; But up unto the watch-towre get, And... "
Aberdeen University Studies - Page 253
1918
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Sacred Poetry of the Seventeenth Century: Including the Whole of ..., Volume 2

Richard Cattermole - 1836 - 436 pages
...is red, Are mysteries which none have reached unto. In this low form, poor soul, what wilt thou do ? When wilt thou shake off this pedantery, Of being taught by sense and fantasy ? Thou look'st through spectacles; small things seem great Below ; but up unto the watch-tower...
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Sacred Poetry of the Seventeenth Century: Including the Whole of ..., Volume 2

Giles Fletcher - 1836 - 442 pages
...is red, Are mysteries which none have reached unto. In this low form, poor soul, what wilt thou do ? When wilt thou shake off this pedantery, Of being taught by sense and fantasy ? T hou look'st through spectacles; small things seem great Below ; but up unto the watch-tower...
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The Complete Poems of John Donne ...

John Donne - 1872 - 302 pages
...Are mysteries which none haue reach'd vnto ; In this low forme, poore soule, what wilt thou doc ? 290 When wilt thou shake off this pedantery, Of being taught by sense and fantasy 1 Thou look'st through spectacles ; small things seeniogreat Below ; but vp vnto the watch-towre...
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Letters to several personages. Funeral elegies. Divine poems. Elegies upon ...

John Donne - 1895 - 314 pages
...Cicero said ; Why grass is green, or why our blood is red, Are mysteries which none have reached unto ; When wilt thou shake off this pedantery * Of being taught by sense and fantasy ? Thou look'st through spectacles ; small things seem great Below ; but up unto the watch-tower...
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The English Parnassus: An Anthology Chiefly of Longer Poems

William Macneile Dixon, Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - 1911 - 792 pages
...Are mysteries which none have reach'd unto. In this low forme, poore soule, what wilt thou doe 1 290 When wilt thou shake off this Pedantery, Of being taught by sense, and Pantasie ? Thou look'st through spectacles ; small things seeme great Below ; But up unto the watch-towre...
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John Donne & His Poetry

Frank Walter Payne - 1926 - 184 pages
...one, and another way Another thinkes, and 'tis an even lay. When confined in a body the soul is told : Thou look'st through spectacles ; small things seeme...Thou shalt not peepe through lattices of eyes, Nor henre through Labyrinths of eares, nor learne By circuit, or collections to discerne. In heaven thou...
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Studies in Philology, Volume 25

1928 - 540 pages
...added to it. A passage in " The Second Anniversarie " describes and embodies this sensuous thinking : When wilt thou shake off this Pedantery, Of being taught by sense, and Fantasie? Thou shalt not peepe through lattices of eyes, Nor heare through Labyrinths of eares, nor learne By circuit,...
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The Mystical Element in the Metaphysical Poets of the Seventeenth Century

Itrat Husain - 1966 - 356 pages
...Donne in some of his most impassioned lines distrusted the knowledge acquired through the senses : "When wilt thou shake off this Pedantery, Of being...Fantasie? Thou look'st through spectacles ; small things seem great Below ; But up unto the watch towre get, And see all things despoyld of fallacies." The...
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Self and Symbolism in the Poetry of Michelangelo, John Donne and Agrippa D ...

A.B. Altizer - 1973 - 140 pages
...and experienced by his soul if it were liberated from analytic mind and ordinary sense perception: Thou look'st through spectacles; small things seeme...get, And see all things despoyld of fallacies, Thou shall not peep through lattices of eies, Nor hearc through Laberinths of eares, nor leame By circuit,...
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The Collected Poems of John Donne

John Donne - 1994 - 408 pages
...Are mysteries which none have reach'd unto. In this low forme, poore soule, what wilt thou doe? 290 When wilt thou shake off this Pedantery, Of being...watch-towre get, And see all things despoyl'd of fallacies: 295 Thou shalt not peepe through lattices of eyes, Nor heare through Labyrinths of eares, nor learne...
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