 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
 | Alvin B. Kernan - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 384 pages
...students' education: 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. Criticism and textual scholarship were encouraged at this time by the increasing availability of different... | |
 | David Fairer - 1990 - 272 pages
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 | John A. Richardson - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 202 pages
...evident from his great series of containment images and his boast of the effect of rhyming mnemonics. A Poet the first day, he dips his quill; And what the last? a very Poet still. (84:163-64) The metJiod is to fix the pupils at the jingling stage and make their writing, and their... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1993 - 776 pages
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