 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 - Page 230by Alexander Pope - 1751Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1906 - 174 pages
...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,... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English poetry - 1907 - 616 pages
...man from beast by words is known, 149 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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1916 - 160 pages
...'Since Man from beast by Words is known, Words are Man's province, Words we teach alone. 150 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... | |
 | Marshall McLuhan - Social Science - 1962 - 306 pages
...throughout the Renaissance. It is also the theme of Pope's Dunciad. The Boy-Senator continues: 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 pages
...'Since man from beast by words is known, Words are man's province, words we teach alone. 150 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,... | |
 | Michael O'Neill, Mark Sandy - European literature - 2006 - 362 pages
...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, (IV.149-52) As Pope's note informs us, "The matter under debate is how to confine men to Words for... | |
 | 1747 - 454 pages
...both his hands. Then thus, fince man from beans by words is known, Words are man's province, wqrds we teach alone. When reafon doubtful, like the Samian...of learning, youth to guide, We never fuffer it to iland too wide. To afk, to guefs, to know, as they commence, As fancy opens the quick fprings of fcnfe... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1887 - 616 pages
...are man's province : Words 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... | |
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