 | Joseph Warton - 2004 - 440 pages
...Genius of the fchools is made to declare, v. 148, that, Words are man's province, words we teach alone ; Confine the thought, to exercife the breath, And keep them in the pale of words till death. Surely our author, when he patted this cenfure, was ill-informed of what was taught and expedled in... | |
 | Frank H. Ellis - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 244 pages
...to the recitation of Latin verses, just as the Spectre Schoolmaster prescribed in The New Dunciad: We ply the Memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel Wit,...and double chain on chain, Confine the thought, to exercise the breath. (157-59.) The narrator of the Eton ode does not, however, advocate revision of... | |
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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 exercise the breath; And keep them in the pale of Words till death. 
