...involve the 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...So spins the silkworm small its slender store, And labors till it clouds iteelf all o'er. ' What though we let some better sort of fool Thrid every science,...

...involve the 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...And labours till it clouds itself all o'er. 'What tho' we let some better sort of fool 855 Thrid ev'ry science, run thro' ev'ry school? Never by tumbler...

...in 1727: "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...store, And labours till it clouds itself all o'er." We do not pretend to say that this time-honoured tradition of the University pulpit is as yet quite...

...kings to govern wrong. Booh iv. Line 1 88. 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. Booh iv. Line 249. Led by my hand, he saunter'd Europe round, And gather'd every vice on Christian...

...kings to govern wrong. Book iv. Line 1 88. 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. Boot iv. Line 249. To happy convents bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines....

...(1919). 23 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...store, And labours, 'till it clouds itself all o'er. Ill 1729 Pope reissued this version with changes and elaborate burlesque apparatus as The Dunciad Variorum?5...

...plays; For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, Goddess, and about it; 170 So spins the silkworm small its slender store, And labours, 'till it clouds itself all o'er. Not that my quill to Critiques was confin'd, My Verse gave ampler lessons to mankind; So gravest precepts...

...but lie and 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 itself all o'er. ' What...

...ears and forget to graze; or 1, 169-72, in which Theobald declares his readiness for Dulness's sake to explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write about...store, And labours, 'till it clouds itself all o'er. These are images that underline the aptness of the contemptuous term 'Grub Street' that Augustans applied...

...never read; 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...store, And labours, 'till it clouds itself all o'er. (A L159-72) How Theobald serves the cause of Dutness, not only a leader but a creator of dunces, can...