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... The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 13by Alexander Pope - 1851Full view - About this book
| Alexander Pope - 1847 - 442 lehte
...in the same spirit, in some degree, with which it was written 2. Its object is to ridicule vice and A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the...find, Where nature moves and rapture warms the mind. Essay on Crit, v. 234. folly, and to throw contempt on ignorant pretension, affected learning, and... | |
| 1847 - 540 lehte
...for wits nor critics pass, As heavy mules are neither horse nor ass. POPE'S Essay on Criticism. 7. A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the...slight faults to find, Where nature moves, and rapture charms the mind. • POPE'S Essay on Criticism. 8. Neglect the rule each verbal critic lays, For not... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 lehte
...230 Th' increasing prospect tires our waud'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 : COMMENTARY. Ver. 233. A perfect Judge, $c.] The third cause of wrong Judgment is a NARROW CAPACITY... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 lehte
...prospect tires our wandering eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise ! A perfect judge c will read each work of wit With the same spirit that...malignant dull delight, The generous pleasure to be charm 'd with wit. But in such lays as neither ebb nor flow, Correctly cold, and regularly low, That... | |
| Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 492 lehte
...aright. Some every-day writers would eke out a volume from the meaning in these fourteen lines : " A perfect judge will read each work of wit, With the...malignant dull delight. The generous pleasure to be charmed with wit. But in such lays as neither ebb nor flow, Correctly cold, and regularly low, That... | |
| Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 488 lehte
...aright. Some every-day writers would eke out a volume from the meaning in these fourteen lines : • " A perfect judge will read each work of wit, With the same spirit that its author writ; Survey the whofe, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind; Nor lose, for... | |
| William Hickling Prescott - 1850 - 380 lehte
...Firme del Mar Oceano, MS., parte iii. lib. viii. cap. i. •f* Robertson, America, vol. iii. p. 5. J " A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ," different proportions according to the character of the individual, no one will deny. And few are they... | |
| Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 504 lehte
...aright. Some every-day writers would eke out a volume from the meaning in these fourteen lines : " A perfect judge will read each work of wit, With the same spirit that its author ЛУГИ; Survey the whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the... | |
| 1878 - 676 lehte
...Malebolge need not deter us from thoroughly appreciating — nay, enjoying — the poem. Pope says, "A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same epirit that its author writ," and we must remember the spirit in which Dante wrote. Every writer, even... | |
| Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 lehte
...The' increasing prospect tires our wandering eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise ! A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the...delight, The generous pleasure to be charm'd with wit. I5ut in such lays as neither ebb nor flow, Correctly cold, and regularly low, That, shunning faults,... | |
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