 When Reason doubtful, like the Samian letter, Points him two ways, the narrower is the better. Plac'd at the door of Learning, youth to guide, We never suffer it to stand too wide.  The Dunciad - الصفحة 230بواسطة Alexander Pope - 1751عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Charles Knight - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 1254
...province, words we teach alone. When Reason doubtful, like the Samian letter, Points him two w.iys, the narrower is the better* Plac'd at the door of Learning, youth to guide, We never suffer it to stand too wide. To ask, to guess, to know, as they commence, As fancy opens the quick... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 550
...Words are Man's province, Words we teacli alone. iw When Reason doubtful, like the Samian letter, 1 Points him two ways, the narrower is the better. Plac'd at the door of Learning, youth to guide, 1 We never suffer it to stand too wide. To ask, to guess, to know, as they commence, iss As Fancy opens... | |
 | 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 - 1887 - عدد الصفحات: 602
...are man's province : Words we teach alone. When Eeason doubtful, like the Samian letter, Points us two ways, the narrower is the better. Plac'd at the door of Learning youth to guide, We never suffer it to stand too wide ; To ask, to guess, to know, as they commence, As Fancy opens the quick... | |
 | 1890 - عدد الصفحات: 580
...refers to the Pythagorean letter in that characteristic poem the Dunciad (Is. 151-152) : " When reason, doubtful, like the Samian letter, Points him two ways, the narrower is the better." Shakespeare makes Ophelia say in Hamlet (Act i, Sc. iii, 1. 51) : " Show me the steep and thorny way... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1891 - عدد الصفحات: 204
...Words are man's province, Word* we teach alone. When Reason doubtful, like the Samian letter, Points us two ways, the narrower is the better. Plac'd at the door of Learning, youth to guide, We never suffer it to stand too wide ; To ask, to guess, to know, as they commence, As Fancy opens the quick... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1893 - عدد الصفحات: 566
...Words are Man's province, Words we teach alone. 150 When Reason doubtful, like the Samian letter1, Points him two ways, the narrower is the better. Plac'd...at the door" of Learning, youth to guide, We never suffer it to stand too wide8. To ask, to guess, to know, as they commence, jjj As Fancy opens the quick... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1893 - عدد الصفحات: 588
...Words are Man's province, Words we teach alone. 150 When Reason doubtful, like the Samian letter1, Points him two ways, the narrower is the better. Plac'd at the door2 of Learning, youth to guide, We never suffer it to stand too wide3. To ask, to guess, to know,... | |
 | Plotinus - 1895 - عدد الصفحات: 552
...Since man from beast by words is known, Words are man's province, words we teach alone. When Reason doubtful, like the Samian letter, Points him two ways,...at the door of learning, youth to guide, We never suffer it to stand too wide. To ask, to guess, to know as they commence, As Fancy opens the quick springs... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - عدد الصفحات: 496
..."Since man from beast by words is known, Words are man's province; words we teach alone. When reason, doubtful like the Samian letter, Points him two ways, the narrower is the better. Placed at the door of learning, youth to guide, We never suffer it to stand too wide. To ask, to guess,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - 1897 - عدد الصفحات: 642
...Since man from beast by words is known, Words are man's province ; words we teach alone. When reason, doubtful like the Samian letter, Points him two ways, the narrower is the better. Placed at the door of learning, youth to guide, We never suffer it to stand too wide. To ask, to guess,... | |
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