 | Satire, English - 1831 - 792 pages
...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 exercise the breath ; And keep them in the pale of words till death. Whate'er the talents, or howe'er... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Croly - 1835 - 312 pages
...too wide. To ask, to guess, to know, as they commence, 155 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. 160 Whate'er the talents, or howe'er... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 320 pages
...too wide. To ask, to guess, to know, as they commence, 155 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. 160 Whate'er the talents, or howe'er... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...fffrijKws, t^toy харт'ПУ Tifa ¿v r-fj X*tpí, TJÎ ÍTf'pu wairtp SfiKvvw, TÍ, oíros Гта(, &С. great geniuses is like that of great ministers : though they are confessedly the first in the eommonweal exert- ist- the breath8 ; And keep them in the pale of words till death. WhateYr the talents, or liowc'er... | |
 | William Newland Welsby - Judges - 1846 - 576 pages
...of lore so speedily to be forgotten, even by those who were once the greatest proficients in it. " 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. Whnte'er the talents, or howe'er... | |
 | William Newland Welsby - Judges - 1846 - 584 pages
...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. Whate'er the talents, or howe'er design'd, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind : A poet the first... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 432 pages
...too wide. To ask, to guess, to know, as they commence, 155 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. 160 Whate'er the talents, or howe'er... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...memory, we load the brain, Blind rebel Wit, and double chain on chain, Confine the thought, to exercise the breath : And keep them in the pale of words till death. Whate'er the talents, or howe'er design 'd, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind : A poet the first... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 638 pages
...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 exercise the breath p ; And keep them in the pale of words till death. Whate'er the talents, or howe'er... | |
 | Evolution, Mental - 1850 - 390 pages
...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 exercise the breath, And keep them in the pale of words till death." And again (v. 249) the result... | |
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