 We only furnish what he cannot use, Or wed to what he must divorce, a muse: Full in the midst of Euclid dip at once, And petrify a genius to a dunce: Or set on metaphysic ground to prance, Show all his paces, not a step advance. With the same cement,...  The Schoolmaster in Comedy and Satire - Page 138edited by - 1894 - 592 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 354 pages
...the fame CEMENT, ever fure to bind, We bring to one dead level ev'ry mind. Then take him to devellop, if you can, And hew the Block off, and get out the Man. 270 NOTES. VER. 264. petrify a Genius] Thofe who have no Genius, employ 'd in works of imagination... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 370 pages
...the fame CEMENT, ever fure to bind, We bring to one dead level ev'ry mind. Then take him to devellop, if you can, And hew the Block off, and get out the Man. But wherefore wafte I words ? I fee advance 271 Whore, Pupil, and lac'd Governor from France.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1757 - 246 pages
...the lame CEMENT, ever fure to bind, We bring to one dead level ev'ry mind. Then take him to devellop, if you can, And hew the Block off, and get out the Man. 2-9 But wherefore wafte I words ? I fee advance , Whore, Pupil, and lac'd Governor from France.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1760 - 388 pages
...the fame CEMENT, everfure to bind, We bring to one dread level ev'ry mind. Then take him to devellop, if you can, And hew the Block off, and get out the Man. REMARKS. iug to the Subjeft and the Occafion : But there is one general method, with the encomium... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - Poets, English - 1769 - 600 pages
...CEMENT, ever fure to bind, " We bring to one dead level ev'ry mind : *' Then take him to devellop, if you can, " And hew the Block off, and get out the Man." The poet proceeds by regular gradations ftill farther to expofe the defeats of fafhionable education,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1777 - 212 pages
...advance. • With the fame CEMENT, ever fure to Ijind, We bring to one dead level ev'ry mind. F hen take him to develop, if you can, And hew the Block off, and get out the man. But wherefore wafte I words ? I fee advance Whore, Pupil, and lac'd Governor from France. Walker... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 340 pages
...Learning; but who equally made it their care to advance the polite Arts in their leveral Societies. Then take him to develop, if you can, And hew the Block off, and get out the Man. 270 But wherefore wafte I words ? I fee advance Whore, Pupil, and lac'd Governor, from France.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1787 - 340 pages
...employed in works of imagination ; thofe who have, in abftradt fciencej. Then take him to devellop, if you can, And hew the Block off, and get out the Man. 270 But wherefore wade I words ? 1 fee advance Whore, Pupil, and lac'd Governor from France. Walker... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 328 pages
...• .•' With the fame CEMENT, ever fure to bind, We bring to one dead level every mind. Thenltake him to develop if you can, And hew the Block off, and get out the Man. -270 But wherefore wafle I words ? 1 fee advance Whore, Pupil, and lac'd Governor, from France.... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 906 pages
...metaphyfic ground to prance, Show all hi» paces, not a ftep advance. With the fame cement, ever fure to bind, We bring to one dead level every mind. Then take him to develope if you can, And hew the block off, and get out the man. »70 banng had it in their choice... | |
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