...PURCELL. — I do not speak disrespectfully of my friend, but I do not like this index learning : " Which turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail." There were two individuals whom he his confounded. The first, called Scotus Evigena, lived in the ninth...

...How prologues into prefaces decay, And these to notes are fritter'd quite away: How index -learning 1 How, with less reading than makes felons 'scape, Less human genius than God gives an ape, [Greece,...

...sense behind : 276 How prologues into prefaces decay, And these to notes are fritter'd quite away : How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail : 280 How, with less reading than makes felons 'scape, Less human genius than God gives an ape, Small...

...of sense behind : How prologues into prefaces decay, And these to notes are fritter'd quite away : How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail ; How, with less reading than makes felons 'scape, Less human genius than God gives an ape, Small thanks...

...has not been indexed in any text-book, and never will be. It is not for us, then, here to-day, to try "How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tall j " but, on the contrary, to remark that from this index-learning, from these histories of science...

...and being also inaccurately quoted, 1 presume that the lines from thi 1 Dunciad ' may be cited :— How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail.—i. 275-6 There ia a Latin and Greek proverb, " Cauda teñe: inguillam," which Erasmus explains...

...§cct. v (published 17U4). Four-and-twenty years later, Pope wrote :— " How Index learning turne no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail." The Uunciad, i. 27« (published 1728). One ought not, I suppose, to call this a plagiarism ; but does...

...afterward, striking at this same vice, exclaims, with more than a ' coincidence : ' 1 How ¡ndcx-lcnminft turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail." And Hazlitt, too, has remarked, in his Essay on the Ignorance of the 1852.] Sehediasms. 48 Learned,...

...afterward, striking at this same vice, exclaims, with more than a ' coincidence : ' ' How index-lcnming turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tall.' Learned, ' People in towns, indeed, are wofully deficient in a knowledge of character, which...

...of sense behind : How prologues into prefaces decay, Arid these to notes are fritter'd quite away : How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail : 280 How, with less reading than makes felons 'scape, Less human genius than God gives an ape, Small...