...villa. t The letter Y was used by Pythagoras 03 an emblem of the different roads of virtue and vice. We ply the memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel wit,...breath, And keep them in the pale of words till death. 160 Whate'er the talents, or howe'er design'd, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind : A poet the...

...Words are man's province, words we teach alone. * * * # * To ask, to guess, to know, as they commence, As fancy opens the quick springs of sense, We ply...breath, And keep them in the pale of words till death. (Lines 148 ft'.) Cowper, too, says : — And is he well content his son should find No nourishment...

...sense, \Ve ply the memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel wit, und double chain on chain, Confine tlie thought, to exercise the breath, And keep them in the pale of words til death." I think it is a poor and imperfect conception of education that should limit it to the...

...youth to guide, We never suffer it to stand too wide3. To ask, to guess, to know, as they commence, As Fancy opens the quick springs of Sense, We ply...Words till death. Whate'er the talents, or howe'er design'd, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind: A Poet the first day he dips his quill; And what...

...words and things he pursues again in the Dunciad, in satirising grammar-school education, 4. 159, ' Confine the thought to exercise the breath, And keep them in the pale of words till death.' BOOKS PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS, OXFORD, AND PUBLISHED FOR THE UNIVERSITY BY MACMILLAN AND CO.,...

...piy the Memory, we laad the brain, Bind rebel Wit, and double chain on chain. Confine ttte thovijht, to exercise the breath; And keep them in the pale of Words till death. Whaleer the talents, or howeer designa, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind (15). O my dearfriendl...

...for : — To ask, to guess, to know, ns they commence, At fancy opent the quick springs of seal«, We ply the memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel wit,...exercise the breath, And keep them in the pale of words tilt death. I think it is a poor and imperfect conception of education that should limit it to the...

...To n*k, to piles«:, to know, яя they commence, As Гапсу ojieni the quick springs of кпм, We ply the memory, we load the brain. Bind rebel wit,...and double chain on chain, Confine the thought, to c%crcite the breath, And keep them in the pole of words till death. I think it is a poor and imperfect...

...methods of instruction practised in English schools : " To ask, to guess, to know, as they commence, As fancy opens the quick springs of sense ; We ply the memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel wit und double chain on chain ; Confine the thought to exercise the breath, And keep them in the pale of...

...reasoning, and yet they may remain utterl/ uncaredfbr; — To n?k, to guess, to know, as they commence, . As fancy opens the quick springs of sense, We ply the memory, we lond the brain. Bind rebel wit, and double chuin on chain, Confine the thought, l>> exercise the breath....