 To tire our patience, than mislead our sense. Some few in that, but numbers err in this, Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss; A fool might once himself alone expose, Now one in verse makes many more in prose. 'Tis with our judgments as our watches,...  The Works of Alexander Pope - Page 227by Alexander Pope - 1822 - 436 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Everett - 1842 - 592 pages
...force, and correctness, he imparted it to others. There is but too much truth in the remark, that "it is with our judgments as our watches ; none go just alike, yet each believes his own." But if a man wish to keep his watch right, he will take care to regulate it by the sun, as the good... | |
 | Cuthbert William Johnson - 1842 - 1364 pages
...pertinaciously, and sets its estimate far above its real value or correctness. " It is with our opinions as our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own." The chief error appears to be in considering any of the above enumerated causes as the exclusive one... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1849 - 316 pages
...be given, Where one short anguish is the price of heaven. Our Judgment.. 2. 'Tis with our judgment, as our watches ; none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. Kindness. * 3. Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles, springs... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...mislead our sense. Some few in that, but numbers err in this, Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss; A fool might once himself alone expose, Now one in...watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. In poets as true genius is but rare, True taste as seldom is the critics' share; Both must alike from... | |
 | Leonor de Almeida Portugal Lorena e Lencastre Alorna (Marquesa de) - 1844 - 884 pages
...mislead our sense: Some few in that, but numbers err in this, Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss; A fool might once himself alone expose, Now one in...watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. In Poets as true genius is but rare, True taste as seldom is the Critic's share; Both must alike from... | |
 | Christian Fürchtegott Gellert - 1988 - 346 pages
...mit unsern Uhren. Keine geht mit der ändern vollkommen gleich, und jeder glaubt doch der seinigen: 'Tis with our Judgments as our Watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. Ich weis nichts mehr zu sagen, als daß ich vielleicht schon zu viel gesagt 10 habe. Leipzig, im Aprilmonate... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...Criticism 21 'Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill; (Fr. I) 22 AA; AnAmPo; FaPON; FM; GN; NOBA; OxBA 33 (Fr. I) 23 Some have at first for wits, then poets passed. Turned critics next, and proved plain fools... | |
 | Stuart Sherman - 1996 - 352 pages
...couplet published two weeks after Gay's "Letter," found the two procedures close enough for simile. Tis with our Judgments as our Watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.4 Pope here echoes a comparison used by Suckling in the epilogue to his play Aglaura (1638): But... | |
 | William Bowman Piper - 1997 - 212 pages
...has indicated in the reference to pharmacy. Near the beginning of the poem comes this observation, "'Tis with our Judgments as our Watches, none / Go just alike, yet each believes his own," an extremely subtle exercise in social ingratiation. Every one of us but a certain one — a certain... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 pages
...mislead our sense. Some few in that, but numbers err in this, Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss; A fool might once himself alone expose, Now one in...rare, True taste as seldom is the critic's share; Both must alike from Heaven derive their light, These born to judge, as well as those to write. Let... | |
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