 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 dunciad, in four books - 142 ページAlexander Pope 著 - 1777 - 195 ページ全文表示 - この書籍について
 | Henry Barnard - 1876
...Dullness in the ' Dunciad ' thus characterize this excessive explanation on the part of the teacher. For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write iibout it, Goddess, and about it. And in the same spirit Mr. Wilson stigmatizes as synonymous ' the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1878 - 448 ページ
...smokes involve the pole. For thee we dim the eyes, and stuff the heaa With all such reading as wag 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1882
...Metaphysic smokes ' involve the Pole. For thee we dim the eyes, and stuff the head (3 A) 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... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1882
...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... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1882
...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... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883
...Book iv. Line 90. The right divine of kings to govern wrong. Line 188. 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. Line 249. To happy convents bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple... | |
 | Albert Harris Tolman - 1925 - 270 ページ
...read; For thee supplying, in the worst of days, Notes to dull books, and prologues to dull plays ; For thee explain 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... | |
 | Tucker Brooke, Matthias A.. Shaaber - 1959 - 462 ページ
...(1919). 23 RH Griffith, 'The Dunciad of 1728," MP, xm (1915). 1-18; cLColophon, III (1938). 569-586. 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... | |
 | ...On learning's surface we but lie and nod. 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: 40 So spins the silk-worm small its slender store, And labours till it clouds... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - 1976 - 149 ページ
...ears and forget to graze; or 1, 169-72, in which Theobald declares his readiness for Dulness's sake to 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... | |
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