 | Robert Mudie - 1838 - 370 pages
...author labouring with might and main to make himself understand what he is about, to behold him — " Explain a thing, till all men doubt it ; And write about it, goddess, and about it." We have already endeavoured to show that generalizaVAGUENESS OF GENERAL IDEAS AND TERMS. 277 tion consists... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1838 - 338 pages
...addressed to the patroness of sophistry, as well as dulness, are admirably adapted. " Explain upon a thing till all men doubt it; And write about it, goddess, and about it. "t Example. " Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, , But an eternal now does always last."*... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1838 - 460 pages
...bard, addressed to the patroness of sophistry as well as dulness, are admirably adapted : Explain upon a thing, till all men doubt it ; And write about it, goddess, and about ill1. Of the same kind of school-metaphysics are these lines of Cowley : Nothing is there to come,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...SCIUUL. For thee we dim the eyes, and stuff the bead With all siu'h reading as was never read : Гиг — "0, Sir, the dictionary." You miss my aim ; I...acute, And perfect speaker? — " Onslow, past disp ÜB slender store, And labours till it clouds itself all o'er. What though we let some better sort... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1840 - 314 pages
...addressed to the patroness of sophistry, as well as dulness, are admirably adapted. " Explain upon a thing till all men doubt it ; And write about it, goddess, and about it. "f » Example. " Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now does always last."*... | |
 | George Campbell - Theology - 1840 - 450 pages
...bard, addressed to the patroness of sophistry as well as dulness, are admirably adapted : Explain upon a thing, till all men doubt it ; And write about it, goddess, and about it7. Of the same kind of school-metaphysics are these lines of Cowley : Nothing is there to come, and... | |
 | Robert Gordon Latham - English language - 1843 - 236 pages
...meeting points the sacred hair dissever From her fair head for ever and for ever. — POPE. Prove and explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, Goddess, and about it. — Po PE. § 407. An accented syllable followed by two unaccented ones, and coming under the conditions... | |
 | Robert Gordon LATHAM - 1843 - 236 pages
...meeting points the sacred hair dissewr From her fair head for ever and for ever.—POPE. Prove and explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, Goddess, and about it.—POPS. § 407. An accented syllable followed by two unaccented ones, and coming under the conditions... | |
 | Scotland - 1845 - 824 pages
...make it prose again. For Attic phrase in Plato let them seek, I poach in Suidas for unlicens'd Greek. For thee we dim the eyes, and stuff the head With...doubt it, And write about it, Goddess, and about it." If Bentley has turned Horace and Milton (Warton blunderingly reads Maro) into prose by his emendations,... | |
 | England - 1845 - 812 pages
...prose again. For Attic phrase in Plato let them seek, I poach in Suidas for unlicens'd Greek. For thec we dim the eyes, and stuff the head With all such...doubt it, And write about it, Goddess, and about it." If Bentley has turned Horace and Milton (Warton blunderingly reads Maro) into prose by his emendations,... | |
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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 itself all o'er. 
