 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...wandering eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise ! A perfect judge1 will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ : Survey...WHOLE, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves,and rapture warms the mind ; Nor lose for that malignant dull delight, The generous pleasure... | |
 | Leonor de Almeida Portugal Lorena e Lencastre Alorna (Marquesa de) - 1844 - 884 pages
...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...mind; Nor lose for that malignant dull delight, The gen'rous pleasure to be charm'd with wit. But in such lays as neither ebb nor flow, Correctly cold,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ ; Survey the whole,2 nor seek slight faults to find, Where nature moves,...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 442 pages
...which it was written 2. Its object is to ridicule vice and A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ ; Survey...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... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...are neither horse nor ass. POPE'S Essay on Criticism. 7. A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ ; Survey...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 pages
...in each part, when considered singly, as to present a very mis-shapen form — Warburton . Ver. 235. Survey the WHOLE, nor seek slight faults to find Where Nature moves, and rapture warms the mind ;] The second line, in apologizing for those faults which the first says should be overlooked, gives... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1848 - 642 pages
...wandering 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...that malignant dull delight, The generous pleasure to he charm'd with wit. But, in such lays as neither ehh nor flow, Correctly cold, and regularly low,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...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 its author writ : Survey...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, arid Alps on Alps arise! A perfect judge will read each work of wit Wi:h the same spirit that its author writ : Survey the...such lays as neither ebb nor flow, Correctly cold, arid regularly low, 240 Tlmt, shunning faults, one quiet tenor keep ; We cannot blame indeed — but... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - Chartism - 1850 - 492 pages
...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...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... | |
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Th' 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 same spirit that its author writ ; Survey the whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves,... 
