 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 400 páginas
...Roscommon, Sfc. ver. 725. Conclusion. AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM. WITH THE COMMENTARY OF WILLIAM WARBURTON, DD 'Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear...writing or in judging ill ; But, of the two, less dang'rous is th' offence To tire our patience, than mislead our sense. COMMENTARY. An Essay] The poem... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 páginas
...Roscommon, fyc. ver. 725. Conclusion. AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM. •WITH THE COMMENTARY OF WILLIAM WARBURTON, DD Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear in...writing or in judging ill ; But, of the two, less dang'rous is th' offence To tire our patience, than mislead our sense. COMMENTARY. An Essay] The poem... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 404 páginas
...the least hurtful, the poet has enabled us to determine in the lines with which he opens his poem. " But of the two, less dangerous is the offence, To tire our patience, than mislead our sense." Warburton. He has too frequently expressed an idle contempt of the Heinsiuses, Burmans, Gronoviuses,... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1825 - 476 páginas
...only_ been raising up " bubbles light as air," then let me conclude with the words of the poet — " "Tis hard to say if greater want of skill Appear in...in judging ill; But, of the two, less dangerous is th* offence, To tire our patience than mislead our sense." I am, Sir, Your humble servant, JAMES YULE.... | |
 | 1825 - 546 páginas
...been raising up " bubbles light as air," then let me conclude with the words of the poet — " "Hs hard to say if greater want of skill Appear in writing,...in judging ill ; But, of the two, less dangerous is th* offence, To tire our patience than mislead our sense." I am, Sir, Your humble servant, JAMES YCLE.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 páginas
...unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie. ESSAY ON CRITICISM. 'Tts Sueh and so various are the tastes of men. O blest...Heaven ! whom not the languid rangs Of luxury, the s th' ofienee To tire our patienee, than mislead our sense. Some few in that, but numbers err in this,... | |
 | 1825 - 484 páginas
...been raising up " bubbles li^ht as air," then let me conclude with the words of the poet — " "fls hard to say if greater want of skill Appear in writing, or in judging ill ; But, of the two, less dangerons is th* offence, To tire our patience than mislead our sense." I am, Sir, Your humble servant,... | |
 | Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 524 páginas
...ground, then the criticism is equally forgotten, since it is immediately thought to be unjust! Yet, Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill. Pope. Courtship. It seems very singular that men should debase their personal characters by servility,... | |
 | Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 492 páginas
...ground, then the criticism is equally forgotten, since it is immediately thought to be unjust ! Yet, "Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill.' Pope. Courtship. It seems very singular that men should debase their personal characters by servility,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 páginas
...them by the ancients ver. HO to 180. Reverence due to the ancients, anf praise of them, ver. 1S1, fyc. — Live iu peace— Adieu. ANSWER TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTION OF MRS. HOWE. WHAT Is prudery? Tis lese dangerous is the offence To tire our patience, than mislead our een>p. Some few in that, but numbers... | |
| |
Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss ; A fool might once himself alone expose, Now one in verse makes many more in prose. 
