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
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...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 - Poets, English - 1882 - 550 pages
...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... | |
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...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 - 580 pages
...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 - England - 1891 - 204 pages
...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 - 566 pages
...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 - 588 pages
...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 - Neoplatonism - 1895 - 552 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,...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 - Literature - 1896 - 496 pages
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...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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