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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... "
Cooper's Journal: Or, Unfettered Thinker and Plain Speaker for Truth ... - Page 209
edited by - 1850 - 476 pages
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Illustrations, Critical, Historical, Biographical, and ..., Volume 1

Richard Warner - 1824 - 364 pages
...corrected ia the proof •beet. and occasional incursions into the extravagant or outre. It is not our wish slight faults to find, Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind ; Pope. for theymay well be accounted for and excused, from that inherent impetuosity of genius, which,...
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The British anthology; or, Poetical library, Volumes 3-4

British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...; The increasing prospect tires our wandering eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise ! A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the...malignant dull delight, The generous pleasure to be charm'd with wit. But in such lays as neither ebb nor flow, Correctly cold, and regularly low, That,...
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The Poetical Works of Alex. Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life

Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way : 230 Th' increasing prospect tires our wandering eyed. A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the...its author writ : Survey the whole, nor seek slight faulte to find л ¡ , on nature moves, and rapture warms the mind ; Nor lose, for that malignant,...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...our wandering eyes, Hills p.-ep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise! A perfeet judge will read eaeh work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ, Survey the whole, nor seek dight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind ; Nor lose, for that malignant...
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An Etymological and Explanatory Dictionary of Words Derived from the Latin ...

Richard Harrison Black - 1825 - 372 pages
...valiant, wise; " If he can kill him, thinks to inherit " His wit, his beauty, and his spirit." Butler. "A perfect judge will read each work of wit, " With the same spirit that an author writ; "Survey the whole, nor seek slight fault to find, " Where nature moves, and rapture...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope ...: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...each work of wit With the same spirit that its anthor writ : Survey the whols, nor seek slight fanlts sing, Prescribed her heights, and pruned her tender...lost) no more attempts to rise, But in low number he charm'd with wit. But, in snch lays as neither ehh nor flow, Correctly cold, and regularly low,...
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A Discourse on the Genius and Character of the Rev. Horace Holley, LL. D ...

Charles Caldwell - 1828 - 318 pages
...and justify, with perfect accuracy, the poet's representation of a genuine critic ; — ' A proper judge will read each work of wit, With the same spirit that its author writ' As a philosopher, the intellect of Dr Holley was marked and peculiar. Although, as a whole, it was...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...230 The increasing prospect tires our wandering eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise ! abodes, tt'here.nature moves, and rapture warms the mind ; Nor lose, for that malignant dull delight, The generous...
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The Poetic Reader: Containing Selections from the Most Approved Authors ...

Joseph Emerson - 1832 - 122 pages
...; Th' incieasing prospect tires our wandering eyes. Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise ! A perfect judge will read each work of wit, With the same spirit, that its author writ ; 81 Survey the whole, nor seek slight faults to find [mind ; Where nature moves, and rapture warms...
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A Descriptive, Explanatory, and Critical, Catalogue of Fifty of the Earliest ...

John Landseer - 1834 - 534 pages
...consisted with the rest of the composition. Mr. C. must surely know full well, that A gen'rous critic reads each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ. And we are grieved—the generous and tasteful part of the public must be grieved—at beholding such...
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