 | Education - 1985 - 392 pages
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 | Performing arts - 1987 - 300 pages
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 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 978 pages
...teaches, it is only as Pope's critic does, by seeming to remind his audience of what it already knows: Men must be taught as if you taught them not; And Things unknown propos'd as Things forgot. (ll. 575-6) An amateur speaking to fellow amateurs, his claim is not to... | |
 | Thomas M. Woodman - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 180 pages
...morality: Tis not enough your Counsel still be true, Blunt Truths more Mischief than nice Falshoods do; Men must be taught as if you taught them not; And Things unknown propos'd as Things forgot: Without Good Breeding, Truth is disapprov'd; That only makes Superior Sense... | |
 | Garrett Stewart - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1990 - 356 pages
...ratify —at the level of rhyming logic— that very aesthetic "maxim" later to be articulated by Pope: "Men must be taught as if you taught them not, / And things unknown proposed as things forgot" (ll. 574-75). Forgetting is here the very sign, in reception, of what is partly suppressed in the written... | |
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Tis not enough your counsel still be true ; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do ; Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot. 
