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 silkworm small its slender store, And labours till it clouds... The Philosophy of Rhetoric - الصفحة 273بواسطة George Campbell - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 435عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| 1776 - عدد الصفحات: 586
...thefc lines of our Brit iih bard, addrefled to the pairoueis of • lophillry as well as dijlnefs, are admirably adapted : Explain upon a thing, till all men doubt it ; And write about it, goddefs, and about it.-)-" But tho fcholaiUc theology be the principal, our author obferves, it is... | |
| James Boswell - 1786 - عدد الصفحات: 552
...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.' The Dunciad, iv. 249. * ' Genius is chiefly exerted in historical pictures ; and the art of the... | |
| John Bell - 1796 - عدد الصفحات: 480
...we dim the eyes, and stuft'the he;;d \Vith all such reading as was ntver read : 250 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 itself all o'er. What... | |
| George Campbell - 1801 - عدد الصفحات: 404
...than to perplex and to confound, and even to throw the hearers into universal doubt and scepticism ? To such a style of explication these lines of our...thing, till all men doubt it; And write about it, goddriess, and about it j. Of the same kind of school-metaphysics are these lines of Cowley: Nothing... | |
| John Walker - 1801 - عدد الصفحات: 424
...therefore to be carefully avoided, jest we fall into the fault ridiculed by Pope in his Dunciad : f 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 pa->... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - عدد الصفحات: 196
...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 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... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - عدد الصفحات: 464
...thee we dim the eyes, and stuft'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. Lastly Lastly, in this 4th book, the sudden appearance of Amiius, v. 347, of Mummius, 371, and... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 288
...we dim the eyes, and stuff the head With all such reading as was never read : 25O 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 itself all o'er. " What... | |
| Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 388
...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 itself all o'er. '... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 702
...we dim the eyes, and stuff the head With all snch reading as was never read : 250 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 clonds itself all o'er. REMARKS.... | |
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