 To tire our patience, than mislead our sense. Some few in that, but numbers err in this, Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss; A fool might once himself alone expose, Now one in verse makes many more in prose. 'Tis with our judgments as our watches,...  The Works of Alexander Pope - Page 229by Alexander Pope - 1822 - 436 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Michael A. Tompkins - Psychology - 2004 - 286 pages
...contribute to the problems in their lives. CHAPTER S . . . . . . . . Homework to lest Assum¿tioris ‘Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. —ALEXANDER POPE Lucy has become seriously depressed after her divorce 3 months prior. Although she... | |
 | John Adams - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 533 pages
...forgotten? Have the French officers who served in America melted their eagles and torn their ribbons?* XII. 'Tis with our judgments as our watches — none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. POPE. All the miracles enumerated in our last number, must be performed in France, before all distinctions... | |
 | Thomas Skinner - 2004 - 66 pages
...aware that possibly the majority are against me ; let it be so ; we must simply agree to difler. " Tis with our judgments as our watches ; none go just alike, yet each belie-ves his own." Having endeavoured to explain the causes of my determined blindness to the merits of the Hahnemannian... | |
 | Howard D. Weinbrot - History - 2005 - 375 pages
...once. Misleading our senses is dangerous, Pope says, if only because of the fools' seminal spewing: "A Fool might once himself alone expose, / Now One in Verse makes many more in Prose" (lines 7-8). Yet the Essay is noArbuthnot (i 735) or final DWWCZOÍ/ (i 743); the poet is neither tied... | |
 | Gary Clifford Gibson - History - 2007 - 684 pages
...mis-lead our Sense: Some few in that, but Numbers err in this, Ten Censure wrong for one who Writes amiss; A Fool might once himself alone expose, Now One in...Watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. In Poets as true Genius is but rare, True Taste as seldom is the Critick's Share; Both must alike from... | |
 | Stephen Jay Gould - Science - 2007 - 654 pages
...essence of our discord in a couplet (though modern technology has vitiated the force of his simile): Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. Most proclamations of unanimity therefore convey a fishy odor — arising either from imposed restraint... | |
 | Peter Holland - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 381 pages
...should acknowledge that the field of allusion-study is mined with subjectivity. "Tis with our judgements as our watches, none / Go just alike, yet each believes his own'. The bad news — that it was ever thus — is attested by the frequency with which The Shakspere Allusion-Book... | |
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