 | Robert Gordon Latham - English language - 1854 - 282 pages
...standing by itself, and coming under the conditions given above, constitutes a single rhyme. ' 'T is hard to say if greater want of skill Appear in writing...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... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1881 - 468 pages
...will enable me to indicate, and to preserve the general outline of the essay. Premising that — " Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill, Appear in writing or in judging ill." And that— " 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.... | |
 | Richard M. Martin - Philosophy - 1983 - 248 pages
...involving them, any little progress in clarification here should be welcome. A Review of Five Reviews " "Tis hard to say if greater want of skill Appear in...patience than mislead our sense; Some few in that, but numbers err in this. Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss." Pope A kind of one-up-manship... | |
 | Merriam-Webster, Inc - Antonyms - 1984 - 950 pages
...ease in writing comes from art. not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance —Pope) <'tis hard to say, if greater want of skill appear in writing or in judging \))—Pope) Both words are also used concretely with these implications <there's a great art in doing... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...things — but his horse. BoLoP; EBEV; NAEL-1; NOBE; NOEC; NoP; OPOP; PoEL-3; PPP Essay on Criticism 21 thou canst outsleep; Want and woe, which torture us, Thy sleep makes ridiculous (Fr. I) 22 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. (Fr.... | |
 | Dieter Martin - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 472 pages
...Drey Gedichte | von dem | Verfasser der vermischten Werke | in | verschiedenen Arten der Dichtkunst. | "Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill | Appear in writing or in judging ill: | But of the two, leß dang'rous is th'offense, | To tire our Patience, than mis-lead our Sense. | Pope Ess. on Critic.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 pages
...istis, Candidus imperti; si non, his utere mccum. HORACE. 'Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill 1 Appear in writing or in judging ill; But, of the two,...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... | |
 | Lewis Turco - Criticism - 1999 - 242 pages
...phrase or dependent clause. Here is the first sentence of Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Criticism": 'Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear...in writing or in judging ill; But, of the two, less dang'rous is th' otfence To tire our patience, than mislead our sense. [It is hard to say \vhether... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 604 pages
...employ it and who established the usage. Plato, 4th century вс, Cratylus (trans. HN Fowler), 384 5:49 Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill / Appear...writing or in judging ill; / But, of the two, less dang'rous is th' offence / To tire our patience, than mislead our sense. Alexander Pope, 1711, 'An... | |
 | Trevor Thornton Ross - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 412 pages
...productive effects of verbal power in its suggestion that ill writing was less harmful than poor judgment: "of the two, less dangerous is th' Offence, / To tire our Patience, than mis-lead our Sense" (4). The terms of Pope's argument in the poem rendered production answerable to reception: judging... | |
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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... 
