 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 426 pages
...taste and utility ; " Et ipsa emendatio habet finem ; sunt enim qui ad omnia scripta, Tis not enough your counsel still be true ; ' '-' ' Blunt truths...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 428 pages
...habet finem ; sunt enim qui ad omnia scripta, 'Tis not enough your counsel still be true ; /?..f . Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do...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... | |
 | Martin M'Dermot, Martin MacDermot - Aesthetics - 1823 - 438 pages
...unmasks it wherever .he detects it. He appreciates as he ought the counsel of Pope, when he says : " Be niggards of advice on no pretence ; For the worst...sense. With mean complacence ne'er betray your trust ; Nor be so civil as to prove unjust: Fear not the anger of the wise to raise : He best can bear reproof... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...you, with pleasure, own your errors past, And make each day a critic on the last. . 'Tis not enough t. Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In scepter'd pall...Pelope' line, Or the tale of Troy divine, Or what (thou propos'd as things forgot. Without good breeding truth is disapprov'd ; That only makes superior sense... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 404 pages
...you with pleasure own your errors past, 570 And make each day a critique on 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. 575 Without good-breeding truth is disapprov'd ; That only makes superior... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pages
...you with pleasure own your errors past, 570 And make each day a critique on 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. 575 Without good-breeding truth is disapprov'd ; That only makes superior... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 400 pages
...things forgot. 575 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'er betray your trust, Nor be so civil as to prove unjust. COMMENTARY. more common extreme, is a mean complaisance, which... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 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...things unknown proposed as things forgot. Without good-breeding truth is disapproved ; That only makes superior sense beloved. Be niggards of advice... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...enough your counsel still be true ; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do ; Hen must he taught as if you taught them not , And things unknown proposed as things forgot. Without good-breeding truth is disapproved; That only makes superior sense beloved. Be niggards of advice on... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...eritique on the last. 'Tis not enough your eounsel still be true ; Blunt truths more misehief than niee falsehoods do: Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot. Without good breeding truth is disapprov'd ; That only makes superior sense... | |
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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. 
