...involve the pole. 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 labors till it clouds itself...

...result that reminds one of the couplet in Bentley's allocution to the Goddess of the ' Dunciad : ' — ' For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, Goddess, and about it 1 ' The matter is not mended by the Germanised style of the English version,...

...divine of kings to govern wrong. Line iss. Stuff the head With all snch reading as was never read : For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, goddess, and about it. Line 243. To happy convents bosom'd deep in vines, Where slumber abbots purple...

...readers. That laborious tribe the commentators, are to a man full of this overdoing quality. They ever " Explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, goddess, and about it," which is so just an observation that the mind of a reader, who should examine...

...eyes, and stuff this head, With all such reading as was never read; For the supplying, in the worst of days, Notes to dull books, and prologues to dull...thing 'till all men doubt it, And write about it, Goddess, and about it. Theobald is introduced also in the Art of Sinking in Poetry among the classes...

...For the supplying, in the worst of days, Notes to dull books, and prologues to dull plays ; For thce explain a thing 'till all men doubt it, And write about it, Goddess, and about it. Theobald is introduced also in the Art of Sinking in Poetry among the classes...

...eyes, and stuff this head, With all such reading as was never read ; For the supplying, in the worst of days, Notes to dull books, and prologues to dull plays ; For thce explain a thing 'till all men doubt it, And write about it, Goddess, and about it Theobald is...

...incomplete talk or writing may be made about a matter. Pressing this suggestion to the extreme, Pope writes: Explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, Goddess, and about it. Dunciad bk. iv, st. 1, 1. 252. 137 DEFINED AND ILLUSTRATED oat That is, go round...

...talk or writing may be made about a matter. Press-ing this suggestion to the extreme, Pope writes: Explain a thing till all men doubt it. And write about it, Goddess, and about it That is, go round and round the subject without ever reaching its heart or essence....

...eyes, and stuff this head, With all such reading as was never read; For thee supplying, in the worst of days, Notes to dull books, and prologues to dull...a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, Goddess, and about it. Book I, 161-170. Here to her Chosen all her works she shows ; Prose swell'd...