 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 - 1869 - 168 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.' BOOKS PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS, OXFORD, AND PUBLISHED FOR THE UNIVERSITY BY MACMILLAN AND CO.,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 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. Whate'er the talents, or howe'er design'd, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind: A Poet the first... | |
 | 1869 - 324 pages
...piy the Memory, we laad the brain, Bind rebel Wit, and double chain on chain. Confine ttte thovijht, to exercise the breath; And keep them in the pale of Words till death. Whaleer the talents, or howeer designa, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind (15). O my dearfriendl... | |
 | Education - 1871 - 926 pages
...springs of seal«, 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 tilt death. I think it is a poor and imperfect conception of education that should limit it to the... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1872 - 988 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...quill ; And what the last ? a very poet still. Pity 1 the charm works only in our wall, Lost, lost too soon in yonder house or hall.* There truant Wyndliam... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1872 - 984 pages
...quick springs of sense, We ply the memory, we load the bnin. 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. I think it is & poor and imperfect conception of education that should limit it to the learning of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 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. I6D Whate'er the talents, or howe'er design'd, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind : 1 ' The Samian... | |
 | 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... | |
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