 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 534 σελίδες
...view: O ! ever gracious to perplex'd mankind, Still spread a healing mist before the mind; And lest we err by wit's wild dancing light, Secure us kindly in our native night. Or, if to wit a coxcomb make pretence, Guard the sure barrier between that and sense; Or quite unravel... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1903 - 704 σελίδες
...view: Oll! ever gracious to perplex'd mankind, Still spread a healing mist before the mind; And, lest we err by Wit's wild dancing light, Secure us kindly in our native night. Or, if to Wit a coxcomb make pretence, Guard the sure barrier between that and Sense; Or quite unravel... | |
 | Samuel McChord Crothers - 1912 - 356 σελίδες
...defend. O ever gracious to perplex'd mankind, Still shed a healing mist before the mind ; And lest we err by wit's wild dancing light, Secure us kindly in our native night." I would not call any one a gentle reader who does not now and then take up a dull book, and enjoy it... | |
 | Samuel McChord Crothers - 1903 - 350 σελίδες
...defend. O ever gracious to perplex'd mankind, Still shed a healing mist before the mind ; And lest we err by wit's wild dancing light, Secure us kindly in our natire night." I would not call any one a gentle reader who does not now and then take up a dull book,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1906 - 174 σελίδες
...view : O ! ever gracious to perplexed mankind, Still spread a healing mist before the mind; And, lest we err by wit's wild dancing light, Secure us kindly in our native night. Or, if to wit a coxcomb make pretence, Guard the sure barrier between that and sense ; Or quite unravel... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1728 - 80 σελίδες
...foul, To human heads like byafs to the bowl, Which as more pond'rous makes their aim more true, 1 40 Obliquely wadling to the mark in view. O ever gracious...dancing light, Secure us kindly in our native night. t In duodecimo, tranflated ftom Safhactes. 14.5 Ah ! ftill o'er Britain ftretch that peaceful wand,... | |
 | 1900 - 1008 σελίδες
...defend. О ever gracions to perplex'd mankind, Still shed a healing mist before the mind ; And lest we err by Wit's wild dancing light, Secure us kindly in our native night." I would not call any one a gentle reader who does not now and then take up a dull book, and enjoy it... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - 1976 - 164 σελίδες
...ever gracious to perplex 'd mankind! 1, 151 (Who) spread a healing mist before the mind, And, lest we err by Wit's wild, dancing light, Secure us kindly in our native night. The classical parallel is scrupulously (and comically) pursued in Book n, where the Goddess celebrates... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 σελίδες
...view: O! ever gracious to perplexed mankind, Still spread a healing mist before the mind; And lest we err by wit's wild dancing light, Secure us kindly in our native night. Or, if to wit a coxcomb make pretence, Guard the sure barrier between that and sense; Or quite unravel... | |
 | John A. Richardson - 2004 - 210 σελίδες
...the trudi: O ever gracious to perplex'd mankind! Who spread a healing mist before the mind, And, lest we err by wit's wild, dancing light, Secure us kindly in our native night. (1728 Dunciad, 1.141-44) In the final Dunciad, those powers triumph and the apocalyptic vision at the... | |
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And lest we err by wit's wild dancing light, Secure us kindly in our native night. Or, if to wit a coxcomb make pretence, Guard the sure barrier between that and sense... 
