...As fancy opens the quick springs of sense, We ply the memory, we loud the brain, Bind rebel wit, aud double chain on chain, Confine the thought, to exercise...breath. And keep them in the pale of words till death." It is objected however that Greek and Latin are studied, not for the knowledge they contain, but for...

...stand too wide. To ask, to guess, to know, as they commence, As fancy opens the quick springs of sense, We ply the memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel wit,...breath, And keep them in the pale of words till death. 160 Whate'er the talents, or howe'er design'd, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind : A poet the...

...might have gained high intellectual distinction, but who had sunk into lawyers and politicians : — " We ply the memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel wit,...words till death. Whate'er the talents, or howe'er design'd, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind: A poet the first day he dips his quill ; And what...

...•-, " To ask, to guess, to know as they commence, As Fancy opens the quick springs of Sense, V/e ply the memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel Wit,...breath, And keep them in the pale of words till death." By all means let the pupil " ask ;" but let him first ask himself. As for matters which he certainly...

...stand too wide. To ask, to guess, to know, as they commence, As Fancy opens the quick springs of Sense, We ply the Memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel Wit,...Words till death. Whate'er the talents, or howe'er design'd, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind: A Poet the first day, he dips his quill; And what...

...things: "Since Man from beast by Words is known, / Words are Man's province, Words we teach alone. . . . We ply the Memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel Wit, and double chain on chain" (4:149—58). While Busby pays homage to the traditional argument that words are man's spiritual signature,...

...of the word fixed in the printed text the only authority and substance of the students' education: We ply the Memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel Wit,...breath; And keep them in the pale of Words till death. Criticism and textual scholarship were encouraged at this time by the increasing availability of different...

...stand too wide. To ask, to guess, to know as they commence, As fancy opens the quick springs of sense, We ply the memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel wit,...and double chain on chain; Confine the thought, to exercize the breath; And keep them in the pale of words till death. Alexander Pope My confrontation...

...stand too wide. To ask, to guess, to know, as they commence, As fancy opens the quick springs of sense, We ply the memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel wit,...breath; And keep them in the pale of words till death. 160 Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind: A poet the...

...shall be damned to Fame. 8831 The Dunciad A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits. 8832 The Dunciad e To k@q 8833 The Dunciad The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong. 8834 The Dunciad For thee explain a thing...