 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
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1873 - 590 pages
...Confine the thought, to exercise the breath; And keep them in , the pale of Words till death. 1 60 Whate'er the talents, or howe'er design'd, We hang...the mind: A Poet the first day he dips his quill; Arid what the last? A very Poet still. Pity! the charm works only in our wall, 165 Lost, lost too soon... | |
 | John Murdoch - Education - 1873 - 122 pages
...springs of sense, We ply the memory, we loud the brain, Bind rebel wit, aud double chain on chain, Confine the thought, to exercise the breath. And keep them in the pale of words till death." It is objected however that Greek and Latin are studied, not for the knowledge they contain, but for... | |
 | THOMAS ARNOLD - 1876 - 312 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...he dips his quill ; And what the last ? a very poet stil1. Pity! the charm works only in our wall, Lost, lost too soon in yonder house or hal1. There truant... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1878 - 656 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...words till death. 160 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... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1878 - 514 pages
...politicians : — " 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 design'd, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind: A poet the first... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - Authors, English - 1878 - 772 pages
...springs of Sense, V/e 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." By all means let the pupil " ask ;" but let him first ask himself. As for matters which he certainly... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1878 - 138 pages
...words and things he pursues again in the Dunciad, in satirising grammar-school education, 4. 159 : ' Confine the thought to exercise the breath, And keep them in the pale of wo:ds till death." / / •* -^, '•^•7 , . - ' J S»*> 4 '-• ... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1880 - 1246 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 paie of wurds till death. Whate'er the talents, orhowe'er design*d( We hang one jingling padlock on... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1881 - 150 pages
...words and things he pursues again in the Dunciad, in satirising grammar-school education, 4. 159 : 'Confine the thought to exercise the breath, And keep them in the pale of words till death.' November, 1882. BOOKS PR1NTED AT AND PUBLISHED FOR THE UNIVERSITY BY HEM-BY FROWDE, AT THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1881 - 662 pages
...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 I A poet the first day, he dips his quill ; And what the last ? a very poet still. Pity 1 the charm... | |
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