...hold festivals in its honor. On totemic ideas of this type were based beliefs Pope crystallized into: So watchful Bruin forms, with plastic care, Each growing lump and brings it to a bear. An Alemannian lullably sung to a child while washing and combing is : I am a Pumpernicklin, I am a...

...hold festivals in its honor. On totemic ideas of this type were based beliefs Pope crystallized into: So watchful Bruin forms, with plastic care, Each growing lump and brings it to a bear. An Alemannian lullably sung to a child while washing and combing is : I am a Pumpernicklin, I am a...

...Lambendo paulatim figurant. Licking a cub into shape. (Free rendering.) PUNY— Nat. Hist. VIII. 36. 19 t! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly. POPE — Moral E POPE— Dunciad. I. 101. 20 Then take him to develop, if you can And hew the block off, and get out...

...walls; Much she revolves their arts, their ancient praise, And sure succession down from Heywood's days. She saw, with joy, the line immortal run, Each sire imprest and glaring in his son. (B, i, 95-100) However ludicrous the historical context, the passage does effectively expand the Dunciad's...

...shapeless flesh and fur of the mythic cubs attended by their "watchful Bruin" who, in Pope's words, "forms, with plastic care, / Each growing lump, and brings it to a Bear," 3 Elia's essays never fall heir to any wholly authoritative principle of ordering. If the essays at...

...shapeless flesh and fur of the mythic cubs attended by their "watchful Bruin" who, in Pope's words, "forms, with plastic care, / Each growing lump, and brings it to a Bear,"3 Elia's essays never fall heir to any wholly authoritative principle of ordering. If the essays...

...appropriate imagery. When 20 Defoe, Essay Upon Projects, p. 4. Dulness surveys past City laureates: 'She saw with joy the line immortal run, / each sire imprest and glaring in his son' (I, 97-8), and while there may well be a topical reference here to the new gold, silver and copper...

...been so utterly extirpated that he has become nothing but an empty container of the image of Dulness: She saw, with joy, the line immortal run, Each sire...care, Each growing lump, and brings it to a Bear. She saw old Pryn in restless Daniel shine, And Eusden eke out Blackmore's endless line; She saw slow...

...Heywood's days. She saw, with joy, the line immortal run, Each sire impressed and glaring in his son: 100 So watchful Bruin forms, with plastic care, Each growing lump, and brings it to a bear. She saw old Prynne in resdess Daniel shine, And Eusden eke out Blackmore's endless line; She saw slow...

...their mother licked a shapeless form into being: [Dulness] saw, with joy, the line immortal [of dunces] run, Each sire imprest and glaring in his son: So...care, Each growing lump, and brings it to a Bear. (11. 99-102) In this passage another numberless succession of indistinguishable dunces, an assembly...