| Allan Ramsay - 1877 - 426 pages
...out. " 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."—Pope, Thus have I pursued these comical characters, having gentlemen's health and pleasure... | |
| Abraham Hayward - 1878 - 484 pages
...fancy, and notwithstanding the encouragement to erratic courses held out in the familiar couplet— ' From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch...stockings;' and the spell was not completely broken until the 19th century, when Sir Walter Scott inspired the taste for metrical tales of passion and... | |
| Abraham Hayward - 1878 - 482 pages
...83 and notwithstanding the encouragement to erratic courses held out in the familiar couplet—• ' From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch...stockings;' and the spell was not completely broken until the 19th century, when Sir Walter Scott inspired the taste for metrical tales of passion and... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1878 - 532 pages
...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, gains The heart, and all its end at once attains. In prospects... | |
| Abraham Hayward - 1879 - 532 pages
...ROGERS. 83 and notwithstanding the encouragement to erratic courses held out in the familiar couplet— ' From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch...stockings;' and the spell was not completely broken until the 19th century, when Sir Walter Scott inspired the taste for metrical tales of passion and... | |
| Abraham Hayward - 1879 - 476 pages
...fancy, and notwithstanding the encouragement to erratic courses held out in the familiar couplet—• ' From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch...stockings;' and the spell was not completely broken until the 19th century, when Sir Walter Scott inspired the taste for metrical tales of passion and... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1879 - 570 pages
...Licence is a rule. Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, 150 May boldly deviate from the common track; From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art, Which without passing thro' the judgment, gains The heart, and all its end at once attains.* lor after... | |
| Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 pages
...methodis'd. fb. 88. Learn hence for ancient rules a just esteem : Tc copy nature is to copy them. fb. 159. From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. Essay on Criticism, line 131. A little learning is a dangerous thing! Drink deep, or taste not the... | |
| 1880 - 578 pages
...152—155. 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. Boileau ap ch. IV, 78—80. Pope v. 171 —174. Some figures monstrous and mis-shaped appear, Considered... | |
| Arthur B. Davison - 1880 - 396 pages
...LICENSE. 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. POETIC LICENSE. Pope, Essay on Criticism* YET he, consummate master, knew When to recede, and where... | |
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