 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,...  Rudiments of English Composition - Page 56by Alexander Reid - 1854 - 134 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...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...watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. IO In poets as true genius 1s but rare, True taste as seldom is the critic's share ; Both must alike... | |
 | Horace - 1812 - 198 pages
...than mislead our sense : Some few in that, but numbers err in this, 5 Ten censure wrong for one w ho writes amiss ; A fool might once himself alone expose...watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. 10 In poets as true genius is but rare, True taste as seldom is the critic's share ; Both must alike... | |
 | Medora Gordon Byron - 1812 - 246 pages
...the balance, we shall not bo found light wpqn the scales, CHA3P. CHAP. VII. " "fis with our judgment as our watches— none Go just alike, yet each believes his own." .: • . . THAT laudable anxiety which filled the bosom of Wentworth during his solitary journey did... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 582 pages
...edit. in this sense that the word seems to have been understood by Pope, in the following couplet : " 'Tis with our judgments as our watches ; none " Go just alike, yet each believes his own." For this meaning of the word, its primitive and literal application to the judicial decision of a tribunal... | |
 | Christian Fürchtegott Gellert - 1818 - 434 pages
...unfern libren, jteine gebt mit ber anbrni »ollfommen д1«1ф, unb ieöet glaubt Ьоф be» fcínigen: 'Tis with our Judgments as our Watches, none Go just alike , yet each believes his own. 3d) weijj ntcfoto rnc^ir ju fagen , alö fфon ju »ieí gefagt babe. / im äpritmonat, 1751. • S... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 338 pages
...expression is equally remarkable. Thus in reasoning on the variety of men's opinions, he says — " 'Tis with our judgments, as our watches; none Go just alike, yet each believes his own." Nothing can be more original and happy than the general remarks and illustrations in the Essay: the... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 pages
...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...watches', none Go just alike', yet each believes his own'. In Poets' as true Genius' is but rare, True Taste' as seldom is the Critic's' share : Both' must alike... | |
 | 1819 - 352 pages
...vehicles of controversy, when they ought to be the cementers of peace and good will among men. — •' 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own." So let us beware oi risking that judgement in unprofitable and too violent controversies. — Let moderation... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1819 - 368 pages
...farfetched conceit or quaint imagery. The matter is sense, but the form is wit. Thus the lines in Pope — " 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike ; yet each believes his own — " are witty, rather than poetical ; because the truth they convey is a mere dry observation on... | |
 | John Walker - 1819 - 734 pages
...Some ne'er advance a judgment of their own, But catch the spreading notion of the town. Pope. ''fis with our judgments as our watches : none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. Pope. OWSE, See OUSE. OWZE. ox. Ox, btx,fox, equinox, orthodox, heterodox, etc. Perfect rhymes, the... | |
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