...market. It can't be beat." " I'll take it A drum that can't be beat is just the thing for my boy." You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come; Knock as you please, there's nobody at home. What corn do farmers never plant? The unicorn. What kind of pine is...

..." I chose her," says he, " like old plate, Not for the fashion but the weight." —EUgant Extracts. You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come ; Knock as you please, there 's nobody at home. — Epigram : Pope. CHAPTER XXII. PURE REPRESENTATION IN THE POETRY...

...obstinately the desired object fails to respond. As the poet Pope wrote about the witless author : "You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come; Knock as you please, there's nobody at home." In these cases, no attempt to force the memory should be made, nor...

...week if you put your mind to it, with surprise and indignation that you should find so little there. " You beat your pate and fancy wit will come ; Knock as you please, there 'a nobody at home." Dear me, there's Mr. Pope, and very much, as usual, to the point!...

...Take "nobody home." Between 1718 and 1727, Alexander Pope wrote this little epigram: AN EMPTY HOUSE You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come; Knock as you please, there's nobody at home. Sharing the Joy of Life: — The only real happiness in this life springs...

...week if you put your mind to it, with surprise and indignation that you should find so little there. " You beat your pate and fancy wit will come. Knock as you please, there's nobody at home." Mr. Pope is obliging when you do get him, and very much, as a rule,...

...298. Love seldom hannts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise. Line 369. You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come ; Knock as you please, there 's nobody at home.8 Epigram. For he lives twice who can at once employ The present well,...

...cog and then you can pull them down and feed them to the family horses. Bill Nye. NOVEMBER NINETEENTH You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come ; Knock as you please, there 's nobody at home. "To a Blockhead." Alexander Pope. Ofttimes when I put on my gloves,...

...what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought. 5440 Dryden : Cym. and Iph. Line 84, You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come, Knock as you please, there's nobody at home. 5441 Pope : Epigram. VALENTINES, VALENTINE'S DAY. Oft have I heard...

...shall quote from Swift — are among the best he ever wrote, and are probably the most familiar: — '- You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come ; Knock as you please, there's nobody at home" " Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool ; But you,...