| Alexander Pope - 1899 - 534 Seiten
...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 labours till it clouds... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1893 - 566 Seiten
...For thee 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... | |
| Hubert Marshall Skinner - 1894 - 604 Seiten
...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 silkworm small its slender store, And labors till it clouds itself... | |
| 1899 - 604 Seiten
...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,... | |
| Henry Fielding, William Ernest Henley - 1902 - 456 Seiten
...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... | |
| Albert Harris Tolman - 1925 - 292 Seiten
...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... | |
| Bruno Radtke - 1926 - 132 Seiten
...Spottes. „That laborious tribe the commentators, are to a man füll of this overdoing quality (excess). „Explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, goddes, and about it," (Butler, Hudibras) which is so just an observation that the mind of a reader,... | |
| Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - 1989 - 490 Seiten
...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... | |
| D. H. Rawlinson - 1968 - 254 Seiten
...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... | |
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