| Henry Barnard - 1872 - 988 σελίδες
...involve the pole. For thee we dim the eyes, and stuff the head With all such reading as was never read : For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, goddess, and about it : So spins the silkworm small its slender store, And labors till it clouds iteelf... | |
| Henry Barnard - 1872 - 984 σελίδες
...involve the pole. For theo we dim the eyes, and stuff the head With all such reading as was never read : ddressed only to few ; and perhaps fewer still have heart to follow goddess, and about it : So spins the silkworm small its slender store, And labors till it clouds itself... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 σελίδες
...the pole. For thee we dim the eyes, and stuff the head With all such reading as was never read : 250 For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, goddess, and about it : So spins the silk-worm small its slender store, And labours till it clouds... | |
| 1874 - 1020 σελίδες
...in 1727: "For thee, we dim the eyes, and stuff the head With all such reading as was never read — For thee, explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, G•oddess, and about it. So spins the silk-worm small its slender store, And labours till it clouds... | |
| John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 σελίδες
...kings to govern wrong. Booh iv. Line 1 88. Stuff the head With all such reading as was never read : For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, goddess, and about it. Booh iv. Line 249. Led by my hand, he saunter'd Europe round, And gather'd every... | |
| John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 σελίδες
...kings to govern wrong. Book iv. Line 1 88. Stuff the head With all such reading as was never read : For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, goddess, and about it. Boot iv. Line 249. To happy convents bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots,... | |
| THOMAS ARNOLD - 1876 - 312 σελίδες
...eyes, and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read; For thee supplying, in the worst of days, Notes to dull books, and Prologues to dull...a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, Goddess, and about it: So spins the silkworm small its slender store, And labours, till it clouds itself... | |
| Henry Barnard - 1876 - 902 σελίδες
...the ' Dunciad ' thus characterize this excessive explanation on the part of the teacher. For the« explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, Goddeu, and about it. And in the same spirit Mr. Wilson stigmatizes as synonymous ' the most stupid... | |
| Henry Barnard - 1876 - 972 σελίδες
...Dullness in the ' Dunciad ' thus characterize this excessive explanation on the part of the teacher. For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write iibout it, Goddess, and about it. And in the same spirit Mr. Wilson stigmatizes as synonymous ' the... | |
| Henry Fielding - 1882 - 532 σελίδες
...readers. That laborious tribe the commentators, are to a man full of this overdoing quality. They ever " Explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, goddess, and about it," which is so just an observation that the mind of a reader, who should examine... | |
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