 | Howard Williams, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope - Authors, English - 1886 - 632 pages
...Learning, youth to guide, We never suffer it to stand too wide. ***** Confine tho thought to exercise the breath, And keep them in the pale of words till death. ***** May you, may Cam and Isis preach it long ! — 1 Gibber's Apology for hit Life Mr. Carrathers... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1887 - 602 pages
...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 - 1889 - 590 pages
...schools : " 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." " In this opinion there was more... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1882 - 544 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. m Whate'er the talents, or howe'er... | |
 | Marshall McLuhan - Social Science - 1962 - 306 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... | |
 | Harry Raphael Garvin, James M. Heath - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 186 pages
...things: "Since Man from beast by Words is known, / Words are Man's province, Words we teach alone. . . . We ply the Memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel Wit, and double chain on chain" (4:149—58). While Busby pays homage to the traditional argument that words are man's spiritual signature,... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 384 pages
...of the word fixed in the printed text the only authority and substance of the students' education: 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. Criticism and textual scholarship... | |
 | Maxine Greene - Education - 1993 - 472 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 exercize the breath; And keep them in the pale of words till death. Alexander Pope My confrontation... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 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. 160 Whate'er the talents, or howe'er... | |
 | Catherine Ingrassia, Claudia N. Thomas - Poetry - 2000 - 262 pages
...by the ghost of Dr. Busby, past headmaster of Westminster School, regarding classical translation: 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... | |
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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. 
