 | Ackworth sch - 1865 - 442 pages
...he tells us, with very little consideration ; when occasion or necessity called upon him, he poured out what the present moment happened to supply, and...expecting no indulgence from others, he showed none to himself. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched every part... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 244 pages
...he tells us, with very little consideration ; when occasion or necessity called upon him, he poured out what the present moment happened to supply, and,...reader, and expecting no indulgence from others, he shewed none to himself. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...he tells us, with very little consideration ; when occasion or necessity called upon him, he poured out what the present moment happened to supply^ and,...satisfy ; he desired to excel, and therefore always endeavored to do his best: he did not court the candor, but dared the judgment of his reader, and,... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1865 - 80 pages
...eyes from off his face, but wiped the foam From his pale lips, and ever on him gazed. — Byron. 12. Pope was not content to satisfy, he desired to excel;...expecting no indulgence from others, he showed none to himself.— Johnson. B. 1. A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not, the Pierian... | |
 | 1859 - 368 pages
...opportunity of entering our protest against it. Let writers follow Pope. He, as Johnson well remarks, was not content to satisfy ; he desired to excel,...expecting no indulgence from others he showed none to himsel£ Having opened our mouths, we may as well utter one more parable, and say, the style of printing... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1866 - 618 pages
...he tells us, with very little consideration : when occasion or necessity called upon him, he poured out what the present moment happened to supply, and,...no pecuniary interest he had no further solicitude. 4. Pope was not content to satisfy ; he desired to excel, and therefore always endeavored to do his... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1867 - 102 pages
...eyes from off his face, but wiped the foam From his pale lips, and ever on him gazed. — Byron. 12. Pope was not content to satisfy, he desired to excel;...expecting no indulgence from others, he showed none to himself. — Johnson. THE END. raiHTED BY OLIVEB AND BOYD, ED1NBUBOH. Educational Works published by... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1862 - 610 pages
...he tells us, with very little consideration ; when occasion or necessity called upon him, he poured out what the present moment happened to supply, and,...pecuniary interest, he had no further solicitude. 2. Pope was not content to satisfy: he desired to excel, and, therefore, always endeavored to do his... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pages
...he tells us, with very little consideration; when occasion or necessity called npon him, be poured out what the present moment happened to supply, and,...the press, ejected it from his mind ; for, when he bad no pecuniary interest, he had no further solicitude. " Pope was not content to satisfy ; he desired... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...he tells us, with very little consideration; when occasion or necessity called upon him, he poured out what the present moment happened to supply, and,...expecting no indulgence from others, he showed none to himself. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched every part... | |
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... himself. He spent no time in struggles to rouse latent powers ; he never attempted to make that better which was already good, nor often to mend what he must have known to be faulty. He wrote, as he tells us, with very little consideration ; when... 
