 Plac'd at the door of Learning, youth to guide, We never suffer it to 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,...  The Works of Alexander Pope - Page 10by Alexander Pope - 1889 - 10 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Ayre, Edmund Curll - Poets, English - 1745 - 426 pages
...Memory, we load the Brain, Bind rebel Wit, and double Chain on Chain ; Confine the Thought to exercife the Breath ; And keep them in the Pale of Words till Death. In the Speech which this formidable Speflre makes' all the Errors of common fcholaftick Education are... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 354 pages
...Memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel Wit, and double chain on chain, Confine the thought, to exercife the breath ; And keep them in the pale of Words till death. 1 6q Whate'er the talents, or howe'er defign'd, We hang one jingling padlock on the rnind : A Poet... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 370 pages
...Memory, \ve load the brain, Bind rebel Wit, and double chain on chain, Confine the thought, to exercife the breath ; And keep them in the pale of Words till death. Whate'er the talents, or howe'er defign'd, i6l We hang one jingling padlock on the mind : A Poet the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1760 - 388 pages
...Memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel Wit, and double chain on chain, Confine the thought, to exercife the breath ; And keep them in the pale of Words till death .160 Whate'er the talents, or howe'er defign'd, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind ; A Poet the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 346 pages
...Memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel Wit, and double chain on chain, Confine the thought, to exercife the breath ; And keep them in the pale of Words till death. 160 Whate'er the talents, or howe'er defign'd, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind : A Poet the... | |
 | 1782 - 440 pages
...greatly commended. " Words are man's province, words we teach alone j Confine the thought, to exercife the breath, And keep them in the pale of words till death. •' " Surely our author, when he paffed this cenfure, was illformed of what was taught and expefted... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 480 pages
...springs of sense, \Ve ply the memoir, we load the brain, Bind rebel Wit, and double chain on chnin, Confine the thought, to exercise the 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1796 - 236 pages
...memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel Vyit, and double chain on chain, Con(ine the thought, to exercife the breath, And keep them in the pale of words till death. i Co \Vhate'er the talents, or howeVr defign'd, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind; A poet the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 184 pages
...youth to guide, We never suffer it to stand too wide. To ask, to guess, to know, as they commence, 155 As Fancy opens the quick springs of sense, We ply...breath, And keep them in the pale of words till death. 160 Whate'er the talents, or howe'er design'd, We hang one gingling padlock on the mind : A poet the... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...of the schools is made to declare, v. 148, that, , Words are man's province ; words we teach alone ; Confine the thought, to exercise the breath, And keep them in the pale of words till death. Surely our author, when he passed this censure, was ill-informed of what was taught and expected in... | |
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