| John Bell - 1796 - 524 pages
...z5o 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...same spirit that its author writ ; Survey the whole, r.or seek slight faults to find 235 Where Nature moves, and rapture warms the mind; Nor lose, for that... | |
| 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...spirit 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...spirit that its author writ ; Survey the whole, nor seek slight faults to find 235 Where Nature moves, and rapture warms the mind ; Nor lose, for that... | |
| 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... | |
| 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...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... | |
| 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...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... | |
| 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...spirit that its author writ; Survey the whole, nor seek slight faults to find Si Where nature move?, and rapture warms the mind; Nor lose, for that malignant... | |
| 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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