| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 páginas
...race long unconfined and free, Still fond and proud of savage liberty, Received his laws. POPE. fire; Commas and points they set exactly right, And 'twere a sin to rob them of their mite. POPE. Some beauties yet no precepts can declare ; For there's a happiness as... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 páginas
...Mint. Did some more sober critic come abroad : If wrong. I smil'd ; if righl, I kiss'd the rod. Pains, 7 rob them of their mite. Yet ne'er one sprig of laurel grac'd these ribalds, From clashing Bentley down... | |
| Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 páginas
...He speaks reservedly, but he speaks with force ; Nor can л word be changed but for a worse. Pope. Commas and points they set exactly right, And 'twere a sin to rob them of their mite. Pope. One simile that solitary shines In the dry desert of a thousand lines.—... | |
| 1878 - 446 páginas
...Cookes. Did some more sober critic come abroad; If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod. Pains, reading, study, are their just pretence, And all they...points they set exactly right, And 'twere a sin to rob them of tneir mite. Each wight, who reads not, and but scans and spells, Each word-catcher, that... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 páginas
...pun. POPE. They ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still-expected rhymes. POPE. Commas and points they set exactly right, And 'twere a sin to rob them of their mite. POPE. Late, very late, correctness grew our care, When the tired nation breathed... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 páginas
...Mint. Did some more sober critic come abroad ; If wrong, I smiled ; if right, I kiss'd the rod. Pains, reading, study, are their just pretence, And all they...points they set exactly right, And 'twere a sin to rob them of their mite. Yet ne'er one sprig of laurel grac'd these ribalds, From slashing Bentley down... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 642 páginas
...Mint. Did some more sober critic come abroad ; If wrong, I smiled ; if right, I kiss'd the rod. Pains, reading, study, are their just pretence, And all they...points they set exactly right, And 'twere a sin to rob them of their mite. Yet ne'er one sprig of laurel grac'd these ribalds, From slashing Bentley down... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 632 páginas
...Mint. Did some more sober critic come abroad ; If wrong, I smiled ; if right, I kiss'd the rod. Pains, reading, study, are their just pretence, And all they...points they set exactly right, And 'twere a sin to rob them of their mite. Yet ne'er one sprig of laurel grac'd these ribalds, From slashing Bentley down... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1881 - 572 páginas
...? Should some more sober Critics come abroad, If wrong, I smile ; if right, I kiss the Rod. Pains, Reading, Study, are their just Pretence, And all they...Points they set exactly right ; And 'twere a Sin to rob them of their Mite. In future Ages how their Fame will spread, For routing Triplets, and restoring... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1881 - 608 páginas
...? Should some more sober Critics come abroad. If wrong, I smile ; if right, I kiss the Rod. Pains, Reading, Study, are their just Pretence, And all they...and Sense. Commas and Points they set exactly right ; Aud 'twere a Sin to rob them of their Mite. In future Ages how their Fame will spread, For routing... | |
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