 | John Walker - Elocution - 1823 - 406 pages
...carefully avoided, lest we fall into the fault ridiculed by Pope in his Dunciad :— — Explain upon a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it Goddess and about it. When argument and reasoning have produced their full effect, then, and not till then, the pathetic... | |
 | Rufus Nutting - English language - 1823 - 152 pages
...language. the English Augustan age to improve it, and reduce it to system and stability. Explain upon a thing, till all men doubt it, And write about it goddess and about it. POPE. Vital spark of heavenly flame ! Quit, O quit, this mortal frame ; — Trembling, hoping, ling'ring,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 406 pages
...suits the For thee we dim the eyes, and stuff the head With all such reading as was never read ; 250 For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And...store, And labours till it clouds itself all o'er. " What tho' we let some better sort of fool 255 Thrid ev'ry science, run through ev'ry school ? REMARKS.... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 408 pages
...suits the For thee we dim the eyes, and stuff the head With all such reading as was never read; 250 For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And...store, And labours till it clouds itself all o'er. " What tho' we let some better sort of fool 255 Thrid ev'ry science, run through ev'ry school ? REMARKS.... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 412 pages
...suits the For thee we dim the eyes, and stuff the head With all such reading as was never read ; 260 For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And...store, And labours till it clouds itself all o'er. " What tho' we let some better sort of fool 255 Thrid ev'ry science, run through ev'ry school ? REMARKS.... | |
 | Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1826 - 550 pages
...of such a demonstration, in which the truth is almost hid from our view by the multitude of words. " So spins the silk-worm small, its slender store, And labours till it clouds itself all o'er."t The reign of this philosophy may now, indeed, be considered merely as a thing which has been,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...more true Dulness lies In Folly's cap, than Wisdom'« grave disguise. 240 For thee explain a tning till all men doubt it : And write about it. goddess, and about it : So spin« the silk-worm small its slender store, And labours, till it clouds itself all o'er. What though... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1827 - 648 pages
...arrangement, and entangled, and encumbered, and obscured, with foreign matter ; — ' So spins the silk- worm small its slender store ; And labours till it clouds itself all o'er.' If the book, thus loaded with lumber, should be the occasion of suppressing the productions of chaster... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 228 pages
...their several societies. I ( r . And write about it goddess, and about it : So spins the silk worm, small its slender store; And labours, till it clouds itself all o'er. What though we let some better sort of fool Thrid every science, run through every school ? • Never... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...pole; Por these we dim the eyes, and stuff the head With all such reading as was never road : 250 Por thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write...goddess, and about it : So spins the silk-worm small its elender store, And laboura till it clouds itself all o'er. What though we let some better sort of fool... | |
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For thee we dim the eyes, and stuff the head With all such reading as was never read : For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write. about it, goddess, and about it : So spins the silk-worm small its slender store, And labours till it clouds... 
