 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
...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 - 1943 - 546 pages
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