 Some gentle JAMES, to bless the land again; To stick the Doctor's Chair into the Throne, Give law to Words, or war with Words alone, Senates and Courts with Greek and Latin rule, And turn the Council to a Grammar School! For sure, if Dulness sees a grateful...  The Works of Alexander Pope - Page 248by Alexander Pope - 1822Full view - About this book
 | George Harley McKnight, Bert Emsley - English language - 1928 - 632 pages
...Dunciad: Oh (cried the goddess) for some pedant reign! Some gentle James, to bless the land again ; To stick the doctor's chair into the throne, Give...Latin rule, And turn the council to a grammar school. . . . In the grammar-school instruction of the period knowledge of grammar continued to be gained from... | |
 | George Harley McKnight, Bert Emsley - English language - 1928 - 632 pages
...the Dunciad: Oh (cried the goddess) for some pedant reign! Some gentle James to bless the land again; To stick the doctor's chair into the throne, Give...Latin rule, And turn the council to a grammar school. . . . In the grammar-school instruction of the period knowledge of grammar continued to be gained from... | |
 | J. R. Tanner - History - 1928 - 334 pages
...him a pedant. O, cried the goddess, for some pedant reign! Some gentle James to bless the land again; To stick the doctor's chair into the throne, Give...with Greek and Latin rule, And turn the Council to a grammar-school ! It is true that James belonged to an age when scholarship was often pedantic; it would,... | |
 | Joseph Robson Tanner - Constitutional history - 1960 - 416 pages
...a pedant. O, cried the goddess, for some pedant reign I Some gentle James to bless the land again ; To stick the doctor's chair into the throne, Give...with Greek and Latin rule, And turn the Council to a grammar-school ! It is true that James belonged to an age when scholarship was often pedantic; it would,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...Man.' 'Oh (cry'd the Goddess) for some pedant Reign! 175 Some gentle JAMES, to bless the land again; To stick the Doctor's Chair into the Throne, Give...grateful Day, 'Tis in the shade of Arbitrary Sway. 174. that Master-piece of Man] viz. an Epigram. The famous Dr. South declared a perfect Epigram to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 pages
...of man.' 'Oh,' cried the Goddess, 'for some pedant reign! Some gende JAMES, to bless the land again; To stick the doctor's chair into the throne, Give...rule, And turn the council to a grammar school! 180 That which my priests, and mine alone, maintain, Which as it dies, or lives, we fall, or reign: May... | |
 | 1955 - 428 pages
...a pedant. O, cried the goddess, for some pedant reign ! Some gentle James to bless the land again; To stick the doctor's chair into the throne, Give...with Greek and Latin rule, And turn the Council to a grammar-school ! It is true that James belonged to an age when scholarship was often pedantic; it would,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1816 - 672 pages
...James I. " Oh, cried the Goddess, for some pedant reign ! Some gentle James to bless the laud again; To stick the Doctor's chair into the throne, Give...with Greek and Latin rule, And turn the Council to a grammar-school." He then proceeds to give bis commentary in these terms : " Few of my readers, I suspect,... | |
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