 A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ : Survey the whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where Nature moves, and rapture warms the mind ; Nor lose, for that malignant dull delight, The gen'rous pleasure to...  Selected Poems of Alexander Pope - Page 22by Alexander Pope - 1916 - 146 lehteFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1717 - 468 lehte
...omnia^ fed perleftus liber utique ex integro refumendus.- Quintil. Survey the Whole, nor feek flight faults to find ; Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind ; Nor lofe, for that malignant dull delight, The gen'rous pleafure to be charm'd with wit. But in fuch lays... | |
 | 1720 - 302 lehte
...read each work of wit With the fame fpirit that its author writ, Survey the whole, nor feck flight faults to find; Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind ; Nor lofe, for that malignant dull delight, The gtn'rous pleafure to be charm'd with wit: But in fuch lays... | |
 | Christopher Smart - 1752 - 264 lehte
...fcripfit ftudiofus opufcula cura, 350 To turn 54 An ESSAY on CRITICISM: Survey the whole, nor feek flight faults to find, Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind ; Nor lofe, for that malignant, dull delight, 240 The gen'rous pleafure to be charm'd with wit : But in fuch... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1760 - 316 lehte
...a coolnefs of recollection, which a writer fo qualified and fo bufied is noi mafter of. But in fuch lays as neither ebb nor flow, Correctly cold, and regularly low, 240 That munning faults, one quiet tenour keep ; We cannot blame indeed — but we may fleep. In Wit, as Nature,... | |
 | John Newbery - 1762 - 292 lehte
...read each work of wit, With the fame fpirit that its author writ : Survey the WHOLE, nor feek flight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind ; Nor lofe, for chat malignant dull delight, The gen'rous pleafure to be charm'd with wit But in fuch lays... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 592 lehte
...each work of Wit " With the lame fpirit that its author writ : " Survey the WHOLE, nor feck flight faults to " find " Where nature moves, and rapture warms the *' mind ; " Nor lofe for that malignant dull delight, " The gen'rous pleafure to be charm 'd with " wit. A critic,... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 600 lehte
...each work of Wk " With the fame fpirit that its author writ : *' Survey the Wn o LE, nor fcek flight faults to " find *' Where nature moves, and rapture warms the . " mind ; *' Nor lofe for that malignant dull delight, ^ The gen'rous pleafure to be charm'd with " wit. A critic, whofe... | |
 | John Bell - 1796 - 524 lehte
...z5o Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise! A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the...same spirit that its author writ ; Survey the whole, r.or seek slight faults to find 235 Where Nature moves, and rapture warms the mind; Nor lose, for that... | |
 | John Adams - 1789 - 376 lehte
...each work of wit ^•*- With the fame fpirit that its author writ ; Survey the whole, nor feek flight faults to find, Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind ;. Nor lofe, for that malignant dull delight, The gen'rous pleafure to be charm'd with wit. But m fuch lays... | |
 | Christopher Smart - 1791 - 282 lehte
...perfeftus eadem Qua vates fcripfit fIndiofus opufcula cura, Totum Survey the whole, nor feck flight faults to find, Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind;; Nor lofe, for that malignant, dull delight, The gen'rous pleafure to be charm 'd with wit: But in fuch... | |
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