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" How Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail... "
Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution - Page 907
by Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1886
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Studies in American Literary Life

1901 - 136 pages
...the routine and will feel like quoting sneeringly Pope's famous couplet,— " Index-learning turns no student pale Yet holds the eel of science by the tail." But it is precisely not for scientific purposes that these methods of reading have been urged, whatever...
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Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced ...

1903 - 1186 pages
...for the page atone, And Quarles is sav'd by beanties not his own. Line 139. 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. Book a. Line 34. Another, yet the same.1 Book Hi. Line...
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The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - 1903 - 704 pages
...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, 281 Less human genins than God gives an ape, Small...
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The Diversions of a Book-lover

Adrian Hoffman Joline - 1903 - 342 pages
...of index than they contained of text.1 I am not inclined to censure him. "... Index learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail." It is true that Glanvill, in his Vanity of Dogmatizing, said: " Methinks 'tis a pitiful piece of knowledge...
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Coaching Days and Coaching Ways

William Outram Tristam - 1903 - 402 pages
...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 by the tail ; How, with less reading than makes felons 'scape, Less human genius than God gives an ape, Small thanks...
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Coaching Days and Coaching Ways

William Outram Tristram - 1906 - 414 pages
...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 by the tail; How, with less reading than makes felons 'scape, Less human genius than God gives an ape, Small thanks...
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Stokes' Encyclopedia of Familiar Quotations: Containing Five Thousand ...

1906 - 810 pages
...WEBSTER, Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson, Boston, August 2, 1826 Index learning, Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail, POPE, The Dunciad, I, lines 279, 280 Infant, — An infant crying in the night; An infant crying for...
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The Dunciad and Other Poems ...

Alexander Pope - 1906 - 174 pages
...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 by the tail; ] How, with less reading than makes felons scape, / Less human genius than God gives an ape, Small...
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Iowa Geological Survey, Volume 18

1908 - 414 pages
...sobriquet of "Eczematolepis", a procedure that proves the truth of Pope's lines: * * * Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail. as dermal defenses of Ptyctodonts, partly on account of their being a frequent accompaniment of Rhynchodus...
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English Poems: The restoration and the eighteenth century (1660-1800)

Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 pages
...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 by the tail; 280 How, with less reading than makes felons 'scape, Less human genius than God gives an ape, Small...
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