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" 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 labours till it clouds... "
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, to the Time of Dean Swift - Page 278
by Robert Shiells - 1753
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The Dunciad: With Notes Variorum, and the Prolegomena of Scriblerus

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1729 - 262 pages
...read ; For thee fupplying, in the worft of days, Notes to dull books, and prologues to dull plays i For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, Goddefs, and about it ; 1 70 So' fpins the filk-wornr fmall- its flender ftore, And labours, 'till it clouds itfelf all o'er....
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The Dunciad: With Notes Variorum, and the Prolegomena of Scriblerus. Written ...

Alexander Pope - 1735 - 276 pages
...iabale. For thee fupplying, in the 'worft of days, " Notes to dull books, and prologues to dull plays ; For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, Goddefs, and about it ; i70 So fpins the filk-worm fmall its flender ftore, And labours, 'till it clouds itfelf all o'er....
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 5

Alexander Pope - 1736 - 276 pages
...whale. For thee fupplyiug, in the worft of days, Notes to dull books, and prologues to dull plays; For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, Goddcfs, and. about it. ; 170 So fpins the filk- worm fniall its flender ftore, And labours, 'till...
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The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions ..., Volume 6

Alexander Pope - 1754 - 248 pages
...Societies. For thee we dim the eyes, and fluff the head With all fuch reading as was never read : 2-o For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, Goddefs, and abt>ut it u So fpins the filk-worm fmall its flender ftore, And labours till it clouds itfelf all o'er....
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1760 - 388 pages
...beĢ T z For thee we dim the eyes, and fluff the head With all fuch reading as was never read : 250 For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And...write about it, Goddefs, and about it : So fpins the (ilk-worm fmall its (lender (lore, And labours till it clouds itfelf all o'er. What tho' we let fome...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1764 - 350 pages
...Scriii. For thee we dim the eyes, and (tuff the head With all fuch reading as was never re*d : 250 For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, Goddefs, and about it : So fp:ns the (ilk-worm ('mall its (lender (lore, And labours till it cloudi itfelf all o'er. What tho'...
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London Review of English and Foreign Literature, Volume 3

Bibliography - 1776 - 586 pages
...addrefled to the pairoueis of • lophillry as well as dijlnefs, are admirably adapted : Explain upon a thing, till all men doubt it ; And write about it, goddefs, and about it.-)-" But tho fcholaiUc theology be the principal, our author obferves, it is not only the fubjcft of learned...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last ...

Alexander Pope - 1778 - 394 pages
...the Pole. For thee we dim the eyes, and fluff the head With all luch reading as was never read : 250 For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, Godclefs, and about it : So fpins the lilk-worm fmall its {lender ftore, And labours till it clouds...
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The Works of the English Poets: Pope

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 340 pages
...the Pole. For thee we dim the eyes, and ftuff the head With all fuch reading as was never read i 250 For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, Goddefs, and about it i So fpins the filk-worm final! its flender ftore, And labours till it clouds itfelf all o'er. What...
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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 34

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 366 pages
...the Pole. For thee we dim the eyes, and fluff the head With all fuch reading as was never read i i50 For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, Goddefs, and about iti So fpins the filk-worm fmall its flender ftore, And labours till it clouds itfelf all o'er. What...
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