| 1885 - 560 páginas
...PRINCE," Manchester, NH 6. Can any of your readers give me the source of the couplet : " Index- learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail." HC BOLTON. c. How came Firenze to be transformed into Florence, and Livorno into Leghorn, in geographical... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 560 páginas
...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. —En. 2 By Dr. John Ward,... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1886 - 1034 páginas
...TO THE LITERATURE OF URANIUM, 1789-1885. By H. CAEEINÖTON BOLTON. PREFACE. " Index-learning tarns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail." Dunciad, I, 279. When engaged in researches on the compounds of aranium, nearly twenty years ago, the... | |
| James Boswell - 1887 - 470 páginas
...Priestley. 8 Badcock, in using the term ' index-scholar] was referring no doubt to Pope's lines : — ' How Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail.' Dunciad, i. 279. APPENDIX H. (Notes on Boswelfs note on pages 421-422.) ' The last lines of the inscription... | |
| John Michels (Journalist) - 1888 - 464 páginas
...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 tail ; " but, on the contrary, to remark that from this index-learning, from these histories of science... | |
| Samuel Pierpont Langley, American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1888 - 34 páginas
...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 ; " but, on the contrary, to remark that from this index-learning, from these histories of science... | |
| 1888 - 844 páginas
...of sense behind : How Prologues into prefaces decay, And these to notes are frittered quite away : How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science hy the tail ; How, with less reading than makes felons 'scape, Less human genius than God gives an... | |
| 1889 - 900 páginas
...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 tail " ; but, on the contrary, to remark that from this index-learning, from these histories of science... | |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1889 - 548 páginas
...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 ; " but, on the contrary, to remark that from this index-learning, from these histories of science... | |
| 1889 - 922 páginas
...text-book, and never will be. It is not for us, then, here to-day, to try — •' How index-learning tarns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail " ; but, on the contrary, to remark that from this index-learning, from these histories of science... | |
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