 | Industrial arts - 1825 - 546 pages
...been raising up " bubbles light as air," then let me conclude with the words of the poet — " "Hs hard to say if greater want of skill Appear in writing,...offence, To tire our patience than mislead our sense." I am, Sir, Your humble servant, JAMES YCLE. 63}, Red Lion-street, Clerkenwell. ON MEASURING THE HEIGHT... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie. ESSAY ON CRITICISM. 'Tts Sueh and so various are the tastes of men. O blest...! whom not the languid rangs Of luxury, the siren ofienee To tire our patienee, than mislead our sense. Some few in that, but numbers err in this, Ten... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...ARBUTHNOT. FUTil.TSKED JAN". 1 .18J.'»; EY JO I IN SHARrE,LONDOY . POPE. ESSAY ON CRITICISM. PART I. 'Tis hard to say if greater want of skill Appear in...in judging ill ; But of the two less dangerous is the offence To tire our patience than mislead our sense : Some few in that, but numbers err in this... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1825 - 484 pages
...been raising up " bubbles li^ht as air," then let me conclude with the words of the poet — " "fls hard to say if greater want of skill Appear in writing, or in judging ill ; But, of the two, less dangerons is th* offence, To tire our patience than mislead our sense." I am, Sir, Your humble servant,... | |
 | Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 492 pages
...ground, then the criticism is equally forgotten, since it is immediately thought to be unjust ! Yet, "Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill.' Pope. Courtship. It seems very singular that men should debase their personal characters by servility,... | |
 | Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 524 pages
...ground, then the criticism is equally forgotten, since it is immediately thought to be unjust! Yet, Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill. Pope. Courtship. It seems very singular that men should debase their personal characters by servility,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...them by the ancients ver. HO to 180. Reverence due to the ancients, anf praise of them, ver. 1S1, fyc. — Live iu peace— Adieu. ANSWER TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTION OF MRS. HOWE. WHAT Is prudery? Tis lese dangerous is the offence To tire our patience, than mislead our een>p. Some few in that, but numbers... | |
 | Elocution - 1826 - 82 pages
...antithesis, the opposite parts of which are always emphatical. Thus in the following couplet from Pope : v "Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill. „ The words writing and judging are opposed to each other, and are therefore the emphatical words... | |
 | Hunting - 1827 - 558 pages
...obtain his pedigree by our next Number. 266 REPLY TO " A LOVER OF THE TRIGGER'S" SECOND LETTER. " 'Tie hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear in writing...judging ill ; But, of the two, less dangerous is th' of. fence To tire our patience, than mislead our sense. Some few in that, but numbers err in this,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1828 - 222 pages
...•Now one in verse makes many more in prose. 'Tts hard to say if greater want of skill Appear in writin or in judging ill; But of the two less dangerous is...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 alone himself... | |
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Tis hard to say if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill ; But of the two less dangerous is th' offence 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... 
