...stand too wide. To ask, to guess, to know, as they commence, As Fancy opens the quick springs of sense, We ply the memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel wit,...and double chain on chain ; Confine the thought, to exercise the breath; And keep them in the pale of words till death. The verbal critics, headed by Bentley,...

...stand too wide. To ask, to guess, to know, as they commence, As Fancy opens the quick springs of Sense, We ply the Memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel Wit...and double chain on chain; Confine the thought, to exercise the breath; And keep them in the pale of Words till death. 160 Whate'er the talents, or howe'er...

...scholars only. "stand too wide." As soon as a boy shows signs of mental awakening by asking questions, We ply the memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel wit,...and double chain on chain, Confine the thought, to exercise the breath, And keep them in the pale of Words till death. Whate'er the talents, or howe'er...

...known" l . The student is never allowed to enter the hall of learning, nor to ask questions. He says: We ply the memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel wit,...and double chain on chain Confine the thought, to exercise the breath, And keep them in the pale of Words till death. Whate'er the talents, or howe'er...

...stand too wide. To ask, to guess, to know, as they commence, As Fancy opens the quick springs of Sense, We ply the Memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel Wit,...and double chain on chain, Confine the thought, to exercise the breath; And keep them in the pale of Words till death. Whate'er the talents, or howe'er...

...things: "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" (4:149—58). While Busby pays homage to the traditional argument that words are man's spiritual signature,...

...of the word fixed in the printed text the only authority and substance of the students' education: We ply the Memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel Wit,...and double chain on chain, Confine the thought, to exercise the breath; And keep them in the pale of Words till death. Criticism and textual scholarship...

...stand too wide. To ask, to guess, to know as they commence, As fancy opens the quick springs of sense, We ply the memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel wit,...and double chain on chain; Confine the thought, to exercize the breath; And keep them in the pale of words till death. Alexander Pope My confrontation...

...stand too wide. To ask, to guess, to know, as they commence, As fancy opens the quick springs of sense, We ply the memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel wit,...and double chain on chain, Confine the thought, to exercise the breath; And keep them in the pale of words till death. 160 Whate'er the talents, or howe'er...

...by the ghost of Dr. Busby, past headmaster of Westminster School, regarding classical translation: We ply the Memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel Wit,...and double chain on chain, Confine the thought, to exercise the breath; And keep them in the pale of Words till death. Whate'er the talents, or howe'er...