 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...you, with pleasure own your errors past, 570 And make each day a critique en the last. 'Tis not enough your counsel still be true : Blunt truths more mischief...taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot. Without good-breeding truth is disapprov'd ; 5/6 That only makes superior... | |
 | 1812 - 304 pages
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 | Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1806 - 590 pages
...that you had but for once remembered and observed the counsel of that wise poet Pope, where he says, Be niggards of advice on no pretence ; For the worst avarice is that of sense. In the constitution of our government, and in that of one more, there still remains a particular thing... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...But you with pleasure own your errors part, And make each day a critique on the last. Tis not enongh your counsel still be true ; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do : -Men must be tanght as if you tanght them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot. Without good-breed... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1807 - 316 pages
...things forgot. Without good-hreeding truth is disapprov'd ; That only makes superior sense helov'd. Be niggards of advice on no pretence, For the worst avarice is that of sense. 20 With mean complacence ne'er hetray your trust, Nor he so civil as to prove unjust. Fear not the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last. 'Tis not enough your counsel still be true ; Blunt truths more mischief...than nice falsehoods do : Men must be taught as if yon taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot. Without good-breeding truth is disapprov'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...lint you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last. 'Tis not enough your counsel still be true ; Blunt truths more mischief...than nice falsehoods do : Men must be taught as if yon taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot. Without good-breeding truth is disapprov'd... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...things forgot. Without good-breeding truth is disapprov'd; That only makes superior sense belov'd. Be niggards of advice on no pretence, For the worst...sense. With mean complacence ne'e*r betray your trust, Nor be so civil as to prove unjust. Fear not the anger of the wise to raise*; HUM best can bear reproof... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...you with pleasure own your errors past, 570 and make each day a critique on the last. T is not enough your counsel still be true, blunt truths more mischief...taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown propos'd as things forgot. 575 Without good^breeding truth is disapprov'd, that only makes superior... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...you with pleasure own your errors past, 570 and make each day a critique on the last. T is not enough your counsel still be true, blunt truths more mischief...taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown propos'd as things forgot. 575 Without goocUbreeding truth is disapprov'd, that only makes superior... | |
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Tis not enough your counsel still be true ; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do ; Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot. 
