 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 228 pages
...give me leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has so well enlarged upon in the preface to his works : that wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn. It is impossible for us, who live in the latter ages of the... | |
 | James Lawson - 1830 - 276 pages
...if the remark were true, we have the authority of Boileau to urge, " that wit, and fine writing, do not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn." To those, also, who exclaim, that every thing written in... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Croly - 1835 - 312 pages
...me leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has so well enlarged on in the preface to his works : — that wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn. It is impossible for us, who live in the latter ages of the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 320 pages
...me leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has so well enlarged on in the preface to his works : — that wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are rtew, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn. It is impossible for us, who live in the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 pages
...give me leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has so well enlarged upon in the preface to his works : that wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new as in giving things that are known an agreeahle turn. It is impossihle for us, who live in the latter ages of the... | |
 | 1836 - 932 pages
...Monsieur Boileau has so very well enlarged upon in the preface to his works, that wit and fine writing do not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn. It is impossible for us, who live in the later ages of the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 332 pages
...Monsieur Boileau has so well enlarged upon in the Preface to his Works, that wit and fine writing do not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn. It is impossible for us who live in the latter ages of the... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 480 pages
...Monsieur Boileau has so very well enlarged upon in the preface to hi» works, that wit and fine writing do not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an t agreeable turn. It is impossible for us, 9 who live in the later ages of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...give me leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has so well enlarged upon in the preface to his works : They, pale with terror, mark its spires unroll'd, And Jove's portent with beating hearts behold. things that are known an agreeable turn. It is impossible for us who live in the latter ages of the... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...Monsieur Bcileau has so very well enlarged upon in the preface to his works, that wit and fine writing do g things that are known an agreeable turn. It is impossible for us, who live in the later ages of the... | |
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Boileau has so very well enlarged upon in the preface to his works, that wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn. 
