...he stole. Old Dullness, calling her favorites, Pope's rivals, "to her sacred dome," shows them — How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail. In " Richard Third " the reader has seen that Colley Cibber was a poet of no mean merit. This fact...

...Polyanthean helps." — An. Mel., 1, 2, 3, 15. Burton is here speaking of those scholars who had learnt " How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail," and were fain to crib quotations from the Potyanthea Langii. Trivet, sb., var. pron. of ' tripod,'...

...sophistry— in vain; The creature's at his dirty work again." _...-- Pope. \\ I,. Hvs. — "Index learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail." Pope. \VH BcK — " What causes the juvenile sheep to hanker after Mary so?M - - Anon. \VE FKB. —...

...careful folk, who perchance remember a couplet of one of our English satirists — " How index-hurting turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail." As it is not intended to present a purely scientific treatise on the various species of Murenidan that...

...without a clue to direct the readers within. i. FULLEE — Worthies of England. How Index learning omen's eyes this doctrino j. POPE— The Dunciad. Bk. I. Line 279. Those authors, whose subjects require them to be voluminous,...

...Line 93. Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole. Line 127. How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail. Line 279. And gentle Dulness ever loves a joke. '/'//< Dunciad. Bool ii. Line 34. Till Peter's keys...

...one of such ; I stood Among them, but not of them. 2389 Byron: Ch. Harold. Canto iii. St. 113 INDEX. Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail. 2390 Pope : Dunciad. Bk. i. Line 279. INDIAN SUMMER. To her bier Comes the year Not with weeping and...

...figure of the giant mass Of things to come, at large."— Troilus and CrettsUa. Pope, too, tells us "How index-learning turns no student pale. Yet holds the eel of science by the tail."I>imcioti. В. 2. But we doubt if much harm was ever done in this way. The very ambition thus...

...cover of this volume. In very artistic fashion it illustrates Pope's distich: " How index learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail. EGYPT. — The Athenäum, Dec. 16. notices the following new works : " The Cities of Egypt," by RS...

...whom he appears to have studied, and whose languages he seems perfectly to have 1 Query, from Pope's " How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail." See ' Dunciad,' bk. i., 11. 279-80, Elwin and Courthorpe's edition, 1882. —ED. 2 By Dr. John Ward,...