 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 pages
...spoil'd the flock. See ! still thy own, the heavy canon roll, And metaphysic smokes involve the pole. For thee we dim the eyes, and stuff the head With all such reading as was never read ; 250 * Dr. Robert Freind, Master of Westminster School, and canon of Christ-church, t Dr. Anthony... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1849 - 588 pages
...Salmasius : — ' Like buoys, that never sink into the flood, On Learning's surface we but lie and nod. For thee -we dim the eyes and stuff the head With...such reading as was never read ; For thee explain a thmg till all men doubt it, And write about it, goddess, and about it.' When such a man undertook to... | |
 | Robert Hebert Quick - Education - 1868 - 360 pages
...votary of Dulness in the ' Dunciad ' is rendering an account of his services, he arrives at this climax, For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, Goddess, and about it. And in the same spirit Mr. Wilson stigmatises as synonymous ' the most stupid and most didactic teaching.'... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 pages
...spoil'd the flock. See! still thy own, the heavy Canon4 roll, And Metaphysic smokes involve the Pole. For thee we dim the eyes, and stuff the head With...never read : < For thee explain a thing till all men dotiht it, And write about it, Goddess, and about it : So spins the silk-worm small its slender store,... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...kings to govern wrong. Booh iv. Line 188. Stuff the head With all such reading as was never resd ; For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, goddess, and about it. Book iv. Line 249. * Making night hideous. Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 4. Led by my hand, he sauntered Europe... | |
 | William Cowper - 1869 - 332 pages
...ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head." — POPE, Essay on C, iii. 612. " For there we dim the eyes and stuff the head, With all such reading as was never read." — Dunciad, iv. 249. Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, And wisdom falls before exterior grace... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1872 - 988 pages
...the flock. See ! still thy own, the heavy cannon roll, And metaphysic — smokes involve the pole. For thee we dim the eyes, and stuff the head With...So spins the silkworm small its slender store, And labors till it clouds iteelf all o'er. ' What though we let some better sort of fool Thrid every science,... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1872 - 984 pages
...flook. See ! still thy own, the heavy cannon roll, And metaphysic — smokes involve the pole. For theo f these." This is not entirely a dream 1 But such...counsels of perfection, count the cost, and unders labors till it clouds itself all o'er. ' What though we let some better sort of fool Thrid every science,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...spoil'd the flock. iSee ! still thy own, the heavy cannon roll, And metaphysic smokes involve the pole. For thee we dim the eyes, and stuff the head With all such reading as was never read : 250 For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, goddess, and about it : So... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...dunce with wits.2 Booh iv. Line 90. The right divine of kings to govern wrong. Booh iv. Line 1 88. Stuff the head With all such reading as was never...doubt it, And write about it, goddess, and about it. Booh iv. Line 249. Led by my hand, he saunter'd Europe round, And gather'd every vice on Christian... | |
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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. 
