 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.  The Works of Alexander Pope - Page 246by Alexander Pope - 1822Full view - About this book
 | William Newland Welsby - Judges - 1846 - 576 pages
...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 design'd, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind : A poet the first... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...springs of sense, We ply the 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... | |
 | Bengal (India) - 1848 - 520 pages
...— In what sense is the word " horrid" here used ? 8. " Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind : A poet...the first day, he dips his quill ; And what the last 1 a very poet still. Pity ! the charm works only in our wall, Lost, lost too soon in yonder house or... | |
 | Evolution, Mental - 1850 - 390 pages
...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 of this system of training is acknowledged by the author, who thus describes... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 342 pages
...brain, Blind rebel Wit, and double chain on chain, Confine the thought, to exercise the breath ; 23 And keep them in the pale of words till death. 160...design'd, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind : 21 The letter Y, used by Pythagoras as an emblem of the different roads of yirtue and vice. " Et... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 336 pages
...the brain, Blind rebel Wit, and double chain on chain, Confine the thought, to exercise the breath;-3 And keep them in the pale of words till death. 160...design'd, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind : 21 The letter Y, used by Pythagoras as an emblem of the different roads of virtue and vice. " Et... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 362 pages
...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. ieo Whate'er the talents, or howe'er design'd, \ We hang one jingling padlock on the mind : 1 ' The... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 pages
...of sense, We ply the memory, we load the brain, _ Bind rebel wit, and double chain on chain, Comfine the thought, to exercise the breath And keep them in the pale ot words till death. Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the... | |
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