...things sensible are brought to signify things intelligible. Of this the following is one from Pope : " At length Erasmus, that great injured name (The glory of the priesthood and the shame !), Stemm'd the \rild torrent of a barbarous age, And drove those holy Vandals off the stage." we speak...

...construed to be good: C9( A second deluge learning thus o'ernui. And r monks finish'd what the Goths began At length Erasmus, that great injured name, (The glory of the priesthood, and the ahamo ') Stcmm'd the wild torrent of a barbarous ago, Ami drove those holjr Vandals oft' the stage....

...begun. At length Erasmus, that great injur'd name, (The glory of the priesthood and the shame !) Stemm'd the wild torrent of a barbarous age, And drove those holy Vandals off the stage. But see ! each Muse in Leo's golden days Starts from her trance, and trims her wither'd bays ; Rome's...

...scandal of the agel It seems evidently borrowed by Pope, when he applies the thought to Erasmus : — At length Erasmus, that great injured name, The glory of the priesthood and the shame! Young remembered the antithesis when he said, Of some for glory such the boundless rage, That they're...

...begun. At length Erasmus, that great injur'd name, (The glory of the priesthood and the shame !) Stemm'd the wild torrent of a barbarous age, And drove those holy Vandals off the stage. But see ! each Muse in Leo's golden days Starts from her trance, and trims her wither'd bays ; Rome's...

...its cradle on the brake." 9. " Thy larum afar Gives hope to the valiant, and promise of war. " 10. " That great injured name, The glory of the priesthood...age, And drove those holy Vandals off the stage." EH 411. " How are ye joined with hell in triple knot ? " 1. "Who, piteous of her woes, reared her lank...

...introduction to Dr. Johnson's Dictionary, as originally compiled, I fell on the following lines : — "At length Erasmus, that great injured name, The glory of the priesthood and the shame, Stemm'd the wild torrent of a barbarous age, And drove those holy bandits off the stage." Are these...

...to be good: 690 A second deluge learning thus o'er-run, And the monks finish'd what the Goths begun. At length Erasmus, that great injured name, The glory of the priesthood and the shame ! Stemm'd the wild torrent of a barbarous age, And drove those holy Vandals off the stage. E But see...

...construed to be good ; A second deluge learning thus o'erru/i, And the monks fmish'd what the Goths begun. At length Erasmus, that great injured name, (The glory of the priesthood and the shame !) Stemm'd the wild torrent of a barbarous age, And drove those holy Vandala off the stage. But see...

...deserves. Surely execution is not confined to versification alone. What can be worse than this ? " At length Erasmus, that great, injured name, (The...age, And drove those holy vandals off the stage." It would have been hard for Pope to have found a prettier piece of confusion in any of the small authors...