 | 1835 - 40 pages
...tear From thine eye, my loved one. JW THOUGHTS ON THE "CANT OF CRITICISM." " less dangerous is the 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. k_ A fool might once himself alone... | |
 | 1838 - 870 pages
...with all the god-head in his mind ; He whom I/ef/, but want the power to paint. Giffnrd'i Juvenal, 'Tis hard to say If greater want of skill Appear in...in judging ill ; But, of the two, less dangerous is the offence To lire our patience, than mislead our sense. Some few in thai, but numbers err In this,... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 pages
...It is not SodifBcult to talk well, as to live well. Prosperity gains friends, adversity tries them. 'Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill. Angela ! and ministers of grace, — defend us. I come to bury Cseear, not to praise him. A METHOD... | |
 | 1838 - 822 pages
...greater want of skill Appear in writing or In judging 111 ; But, of the two, less dangerous \a the offence To tire our patience, than mislead our sense. Some few In that, but numbers err in this, Ten cenaure wrong for one who writes amiss. Estay on Criticitm. The Grecian... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...is thy victory ? 0 Death ! where is thy eting ! AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM. Written in <*<• year 17W. low. But 'tis not ours, with forces not our own To combat the oflence To tire our patience, than mislead our sense. Some few in tliat, but numbers err in this,... | |
 | Alexander Reid - 1839 - 154 pages
...ear, Not mend their minds; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. 8. 'Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear...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... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1839 - 362 pages
...ye not Pom-pey' 1 And do you now strew flowers in Aw way Who comes in triumph over Pompey's blood'? 'Tis hard to say', if greater want of skill' Appear in wri-ting', or injudg-iug', ill*: But, of the two', less dangerous is the offence' To tire our po-tience', than mis-lead... | |
 | 206 pages
...author, they have not merely taught the poet to mend his line — they teach the critic also his duty. 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,... | |
 | Robert Gordon Latham - English language - 1843 - 236 pages
...syllable standing by itself, and coming under the conditions given above, constitutes a single rhyme. 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 the patience than mislead the sense. Some few in that, but thousands err in this... | |
 | Robert Gordon LATHAM - 1843 - 236 pages
...coming under the conditions given above, constitutes a single rhyme. 'Tis hard to say if greater want ot skill Appear in writing or in judging ill; But, of the two, less dangerous is the offence To tire the patience than mislead the sense. Some few in that, but thousands err in this;... | |
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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... 
