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Miscellaneous Poems and Translations: By Several Hands. Particularly, I ... - Page 40
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 57

1845 - 816 pages
...Some lucky license answer to the full 'I'll ' intent proposed, that license is a rule. Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, May boldly deviate from the common track ; Great wits sometimes may gloriously offend, - And rise to fanlts true crities dare not mend. From vulgar bounds...
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Marriage: A Novel ...

Susan Ferrier - 1818 - 358 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 match a grace beyond the reach of art.' So it is with the subject of our argument:...
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Marriage: A Novel ...

Susan Ferrier - 1819 - 364 pages
...enlightened bard of Twickenham, is also mine : " Great wits somtimes 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 British Poets: Including Translations ...

1822 - 284 pages
...end) Some lucky license answer to the full The' intent proposed, that license is a rule. Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to 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...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 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 - 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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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...lucky license answer to the full Th' intent propos'd, that license is a rule. Ff 2ЭО Thus Pegasus, int James ; and at Coloine : She coude moche of wandring by th ; From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art, Which, without...
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The Whole Works of the Rev. James Hervey: In Six Volumes, Volume 1

James Hervey - 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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The British anthology; or, Poetical library, Volumes 3-4

British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...end) Some lucky licence answer to the full The intent proposed, that licence is a rule. Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, 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...
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Specimens of the Novelists and Romancers: With Critical and Biographical ...

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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