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Dionysius Longinus On the Sublime: Translated from the Greek, with Notes and ... - Page 138
by Longinus, William Smith - 1752 - 180 pages
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...take, May boldly deviate from the common track. Great wits sometimes may gloriously offend, And rise to faults true critics dare not mend; From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art, Which,without passing through thejudgmentjgains...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 426 pages
...150 May boldly deviate from the common track. Great Wits sometimes may gloriously offend, And rise to faults true Critics dare not mend ; From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art, 155 Which without passing through the judgment...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 428 pages
...150 May boldly deviate from the common track. Great Wits sometimes may gloriously offend, And rise to faults true Critics dare not mend ; From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, Andjsnatch a grace beyond the reach of art, 155 Which without passing through the judgment...
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The Whole Works of the Rev. James Hervey: In Six Volumes, Volume 1

James Hervey - Devotional literature - 1825 - 396 pages
...describes, and, while he describes, exemplifies : Great wits sometimes may gloriously offend, And rise to faults true critics dare not mend ; From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. Essay on Criticism. St Paul's is a beautiful...
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Specimens of the Novelists and Romancers: With Critical and Biographical ...

Fiction - 1827 - 446 pages
...enlightened Bard of Twickenham, is also mine : " Great wits sometimes may gloriously offend, And rise to faults true critics dare not mend : From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of Art." So' it is with the subject of our argument...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 98

English essays - 1828 - 714 pages
...infringing the strict laws of criticism ;•— " Great wits may sometimes gloriously offend, And rise to faults true critics dare not mend ; From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art." The frequent transgression of established...
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The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes ..., Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...150 May boldly deviate from the common track. Great wits sometimes may gloriously offend, And rise to faults true critics dare not mend ; From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art ; 155 Which, without passing through the...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice ...

Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...take, May boldly deviate from the common track. Great wits sometimes may gloriously offend. And rise to faults true critics dare not mend ; From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art, Which, without passing through the judgment,...
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Studies in English poetry [an anthology] with biogr. sketches and notes by J ...

Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...take, May boldly deviate from the common track. Great wits sometimes may gloriously offend, And rise to faults true critics dare not mend : From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art ; Which, without passing through the judgment,...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57

Scotland - 1845 - 842 pages
...take, May boldly deviate from the common track ; Great wits sometimes may gloriously offend, And rise to faults true critics dare not mend. From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part. And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art, Which, without passing through the judgment,...
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