 | Longinus - Aesthetics - 1800 - 238 pages
...manage it ; For wit and judgment ever are at strife, Tho' meant each others' aid, like man and wife. 'Tis more to guide, than spur the muse's steed^ Restrain...speed ; The winged courser, like a generous horse, Shews most true mettle when you check his course. Es$ay on Criticism. That That again — though she... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...meant each other's aid, like man and wife. Tis more to guide than spur the Muses' steed, Itcstraiu his fury than provoke his speed ; The winged courser, like a generous horse, Shows most true mettle when you check his course. Those rules of old, discover'd not devis'd. Are nature still,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 702 pages
...its use; For wit and jndgement often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife, 'Tis more to guide, than spur the muse's steed ; Restrain...provoke his speed; The winged courser, like a generous h Shows most true mettle when you check his course. Those rules of old discover'd, not devis'd, Are... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife. 'Tis more to guide than spur theTVluses' steed, Restrain his fury than provoke his speed :...winged courser, like a generous horse, Shows most true mettle when you check his course. Those rules of old, discover'd not devis'd, Are nature still,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife. 'Tis more to guide than spur the Muses' steed, Restrain his fury than provoke his speed :...winged courser, like a generous horse, Shows most true mettle when yon check his course* Those rules of old, discovert] not devis'd, Are nature still,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...its use ; For wit and judgement often are at strife, Tho' meant each other's aid, like man and wife. o DŽ- gen'rous horse^ Showsmuchtrucmettlcwhenyouchcckbiscourse. Those rules of old discovcr'd, not devis'd,... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife* C2 Tis more to guide than spur the Muses' steed, Restrain his fury than provoke his speed :...winged courser, like a generous horse, Shows most true mettle when you check his course. Those rules of old, discover'd not devis'd, Are nature still,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...strife, Though meant e.uh other's oH, like mnn nnfrwife. 1 Tis more to triiidc, than spur the M use's steed ; Restrain his fury, than provoke his speed: The winged courser, like a generous horse, Shows mont true nettle when you check his cou.^e. Those rules of old dlscover'd, not devis'd, Are Nature... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 648 pages
...discas prxcepta vererier, illcs , *ic Naturam sectaberis ipsam. Tis more to guide, than spur, the Mnse'i steed; Restrain his fury, than provoke his speed; The winged courser, like a gen'rous horse, Shows most true mettle when you check hit course. Those rules of old discover'cl, rot... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...like man and wife; 'Tis more to u 1. 1, •, than spur the Muse's steed ; '"•lit".; his fury, tlian provoke his speed : The winged courser, like a generous horse, Shows most true mettle when you check his coarse. Those rules of old discover'd, not devis'd, Arc Nature stilt,... | |
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Tis more to guide than spur the Muse's steed, Restrain his fury than provoke his speed : The winged courser, like a generous horse, Shows most true mettle when you check his course. 
