 | Alexander Pope - 1882 - 544 páginas
...which drives the poor souls TON, 1742]. 198 THE DUNCIAD. [BOOK rr. Then thus. ' Since Man from beast by Words is known, Words are Man's province, Words we teach alone. iso When Reason doubtful, like the Samian letter,' Points him two ways, the narrower is the better.... | |
 | Henry Clay Trumbull - 1884 - 416 páginas
...words, and keeping them out of the way of real knowledge." Their reasoning is : " Since man from beast by words is known, Words are man's province, words we teach alone. We ply the memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel wit, and double chain on chain, Confine the thought,... | |
 | James Sully - 1886 - 474 páginas
...aversion to their books." 17 Pope satirizes the practice in the "Dunciad" : " Since man from beast by words is known, Words are man's province, words we teach alone." It is probable that this revolt from the tyranny of words has led educationists to undervalue the real... | |
 | 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 - 602 páginas
...Schools, he replied with a smile, ' Substitute letters of lead, and you have my entire approval ' : — ' Since man from beasts by Words is known, Words 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... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1891 - 204 páginas
...Schools, he replied with a smile,' Substitute letters of lead, and you have my entire approval" :— " Since man from beasts by Words is known, Words are man's province, Word* we teach alone. When Reason doubtful, like the Samian letter, Points us two ways, the narrower... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1893 - 588 páginas
...who wielded his ferule at Westminster School from 1640 to 1695.] Then thus. ' Since Man from beast by Words is known, 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.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1893 - 566 páginas
...who wielded his ferule at Westminster School from 1640 to 1695. ] Then thus. 'Since Man from beast by Words is known, 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.... | |
 | Robert Hebert Quick - 1899 - 624 páginas
...nothing in it. The old complaint which gave rise to Pope's satire : — ' Thus then since man from beast by words is known, Words are man's province, words we teach alone,' was not more justified by the old Latin and Greek grammar grind in the secondary schools than it is... | |
 | Edward Fry Bartholomew - 1902 - 296 páginas
...aversion to their books." Pope in the "Dunciad" thus satirizes this practice: — "Since man from beast by words is known, Words are man's province, words we teach alone." In a similar strain Shakespeare makes two of his characters say:— "What do you read, my lord?" "Words,... | |
 | 1903 - 668 páginas
...schools on a level with those whose work called forth his scathing criticism. " Since man from beaut« by words is known. Words are man's province, words we teach alone. *• + »*** We ply the memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel wit. and double chain on chain. Confine... | |
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Winton shake through all their sons. All flesh is humbled, Westminster's bold race Shrink, and confess the genius of the place: The pale boy-senator yet tingling stands, And holds his breeches close with both his hands. Then thus: 'Since man from beast... 
