 | Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 574 pages
...read each Work of Wit With the fame Ipirit that its author writ ; Survey the whole, nor feck flight faults to find, Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind; Nor lofe, for that malignant dull delight, The gcn'rpus pleafurc to be charm'd with wit. But in fuch lays... | |
 | 1799 - 616 pages
...have changed my mind ; and give up Lucían, with all his faults, to judges duly commissioned, " who read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ," only begging them not to forget, that he lived and wrote many ages ago ; that his education was none... | |
 | Samuel Jackson Pratt - 1801 - 628 pages
...unseduced by the intemperate sally of unapplied or ill-tempered wit — and all this to indulge * " A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the...that its author writ : Survey the WHOLE, nor seek a fault to find Where Nature motes, and rapture warms the mind. * ****** Whoever thinks a faultless... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pages
...230 Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise ! A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the...; Survey the whole, nor seek slight faults to find 235 Where Nature moves, and rapture warms the mind ; Nor lose, for that malignant dull delight, The... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 924 pages
...bear. Sbaksptart. I uk but half thy mighty spirit for CD|, A perfect judge will read each work of wk With the same spirit that its author writ : Survey the whole, nor seek slight fault to find, Where nature moves, and rapture warms, the mind. fcfr. 9. Intellectual powers diitinct... | |
 | 1806 - 408 pages
...Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring ey.es, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise ! A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the...mind; Nor lose, for that malignant dull delight, The gen'rous pleasure to be charm'd with wit. But in such lays as neither ebb, nor flow, Correctly cold,... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 pages
...MORALISTS. Characteristics, vol. ii. page 253. nibal passing the Alps, in Livy, who is a great poet. 18. A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that it's author writ.* " To be able to judge of poetry, (says Voltaire,) a man must feel strongly, must... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...The' increasing prospect tires our wandering eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise I A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the...malignant dull delight, The generous pleasure to be charm'd with wit. Bat in such lays as neither ebb nor flow, Correctly cold, and regularly low, That... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 316 pages
...30 Tli' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes, Hdls peep o'er hills, and Alp< on Alps arise ! A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the...writ; Survey the whole, nor seek slight faults to find Si Where nature move?, and rapture warms the mind; Nor lose, for that malignant dull dcliiht, "i'lic... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1807 - 446 pages
...i AN'D THE CRITICAL REMARKS OF HUGHES, SPENXE, WAItTON, UPTON, AND I1URD. A perfeet iudge will rend each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ : Survey the WHOLE, nur seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mmd ; Nor lose, for that malignant... | |
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A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ ; Survey the whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind ; Nor lose, for that malignant dull delight, The generous pleasure to... 
