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 Ayre, Edmund Curll - Poets, English - 1745 - 426 pages
...Memory, we load the Brain, Bind rebel Wit, and double Chain on Chain ; Confine the Thought to exercife the Breath ; And keep them in the Pale of Words till Death. In the Speech which this formidable Speflre makes' all the Errors of common fcholaftick Education are... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1751 - 354 pages
...Memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel Wit, and double chain on chain, Confine the thought, to exercife the breath ; And keep them in the pale of Words till death. 1 6q Whate'er the talents, or howe'er defign'd, We hang one jingling padlock on the rnind : A Poet... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1752 - 370 pages
...Memory, \ve load the brain, Bind rebel Wit, and double chain on chain, Confine the thought, to exercife the breath ; And keep them in the pale of Words till death. Whate'er the talents, or howe'er defign'd, i6l We hang one jingling padlock on the mind : A Poet the... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1754 - 248 pages
...Memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel Wit, and doable chain on chain, Confine the thought, to exercife the breath ; And keep them in the pale of Words till death. 160 Whatever the talents, or howe'er defign'd, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind : A Poet the firft... | |
| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1760 - 388 pages
...Memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel Wit, and double chain on chain, Confine the thought, to exercife the breath ; And keep them in the pale of Words till death .160 Whate'er the talents, or howe'er defign'd, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind ; A Poet the firft day, he dips his quill ; And... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 346 pages
...Memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel Wit, and double chain on chain, Confine the thought, to exercife the breath ; And keep them in the pale of Words till death. 160 Whate'er the talents, or howe'er defign'd, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind : A Poet the firft day, he dips his quill ; And... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 1164 pages
...Memory, we load tjle brain, Bind rebel Wit, and double chain on chain, Confine the thought, to ej<ercife the breath; And keep them in the pale of Words till death. 16o Whate'er the talents, or howe'cr defign'd, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind : A Poet the... | |
| 1782 - 440 pages
...greatly commended. " Words are man's province, words we teach alone j Confine the thought, to exercife the breath, And keep them in the pale of words till death. •' " Surely our author, when he paffed this cenfure, was illformed of what was taught and expefted... | |
| John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 480 pages
...springs of sense, \Ve ply the memoir, we load the brain, Bind rebel Wit, and double chain on chnin, Confine the thought, to exercise the breath, And keep...on 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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1796 - 236 pages
...memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel Vyit, and double chain on chain, Con(ine the thought, to exercife the breath, And keep them in the pale of words till death. i Co \Vhate'er the talents, or howeVr defign'd, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind; A poet the... | |
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