 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...Some have at first for wits, then poets past, 36 Turn'd critics next, and prov'd plain fools at last. Some neither can for wits nor critics pass, As heavy...Those half-learn'd witlings, num'rous in our isle, 49 As half-form'd insects on the banks of Nile ; Unfinish'd things, one knows not what to call, Their... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...have, at first, for Wits', then Poets' past, Turn'd Critics' next, and prov'd plain fools' at last. Some neither can for Wits' nor Critics' pass, As heavy mules' are neither horse' nor ass'. Pope. 41. — Harmony of Expression. BUT most, by numbers judge a poet's song ; And smooth or rough,... | |
 | John Walker - 1819 - 734 pages
...Allowable rhymes, all, ball, Sec. ail, mail, Sec. ale, pale, &c. — See Preface to Index, Obs. 3. Unfinish'd things one knows not what to call, Their generation's so equivocal. Pope. AL D. Hold, scald, emerald, &c. Perfect rhymes, the preterits and partieiples of verbs iu ai',... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - Irish in literature - 1819 - 298 pages
...such fanciful appropriations ; but that the walking no-characters of every-day life, the dear, dull, ' Unfinish'd things one knows not what to call, Their generation's so equivocal,' should imagine themselves fit subjects for indignant reprehension or sportive caricature, and live... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 428 pages
...Some have at first for Wits, then Poets past, 36 Turn'd Critics next, and prov'd plain fools at last. Some neither can for Wits nor Critics pass, As heavy...neither horse nor ass. Those half-learn'd witlings, numerous in our isle, As half-form'd insects on the banks of Nile ; 4 1 NOTES. Ver. 28. In search of... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...Some have at first for wits, then poets, pass'd; Turn'd critics next, and proved plain fools at last. Some neither can for wits nor critics pass, As heavy...neither horse nor ass. Those half-learn'd witlings, numerous in our isle, As half-form'd insects on the banks of Nile ; Unfinish'd things, one knows not... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 426 pages
...Some have at first for Wits, then Poets past, 36 Turn'd Critics next, and prov'd plain fools at last. Some neither can for Wits nor Critics pass, As heavy...neither horse nor ass. Those half-learn'd witlings, numerous in our isle, As half-form'd insects on the banks of Nile ; 41 NOTES. Ver. 28. In search of... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 886 pages
...and abortive poems : whether spawned from the dramatic or narrative species, it may be hard to say. Unfinish'd things one knows not what to call. Their generation's so equivocal. However, such as they are, those novelties have been generally well received : Some for the real merit... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 400 pages
...alludes to the condition of idiots and natural fools, who are observed to be ever on the grin. Warburton. Some neither can for Wits nor Critics pass, As heavy...them right hereafter. But the men spoiled by false tatje are innumerable; and these are his proper concern: he therefore [from ver. 35 to 46.] sub-divides... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...poets past ; Tum'd crities next, and prov'd plain fools at last. Some neither can for wits nor crities istance hail numerous in our isle, As half-form'd insects on the banks of Nile; Un6nish'd things, one knows not... | |
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As half-form'd insects on the banks of Nile ; Unfinish'd things, one knows not what to call, Their generation's so equivocal : To tell 'em, would a hundred tongues require, Or one vain wit's, that might a hundred tire. 
