 | Sidney Colvin - Poets, English - 1917 - 658 pages
...dash'd it on the ground, Sinking from thought to thought, a vast profound ! Plung'd for his sense, but found no bottom there, Yet wrote and flounder'd on in mere despair. Round him much embryo, much abortion lay, Much future ode, and abdicated play ; Nonsense precipitate,... | |
 | Hugh Walker - Satire, English - 1925 - 344 pages
...then dash'd it on the ground, Sinking from thought to thought, a vast profound! Plung'd for his sense, but found no bottom there, Yet wrote and flounder'd on, in mere despair. Round him much embryo, much abortion lay, Much future ode, and abdicated play; Nonsense precipitate,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1728 - 80 pages
...fate, IOO And pin'd, unconfcious of his rifing fate ; Studious he fate, with all his books around, Sinking from thought to thought, a vaft profound ! Plung'd for his fenfe, but found no bottom there : Then writ, and flounder' d on, in mere defpair. t This, I prefume, alludes to the extravagancies... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1943 - 546 pages
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 | Alexander Pope - 1945 - 136 pages
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Blasphem'd his gods, the dice, and damn'd his fate ; Then gnaw'd his pen, then dash'd it on the ground, Sinking from thought to thought, a vast profound ! Plung'd for his sense, but found no bottom there, Yet wrote and flounder'd on in mere despair. 
