 | John Bell - 1796 - 524 páginas
...Vida, v. 705. Boileau, v. 714. Lord Roscommon, &c. v. 725. Conclusion. AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM. PART I. 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' offence To tire our patience, than mislead our sense:... | |
 | 1809 - 572 páginas
...an antithesis, the opposite parts of which are always emphatical. Thus in the following couplet from Pope : Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill. The words writing s^A judging are opposed to each other, and are, therefore, the emphatical words:... | |
 | John Walker - 1801 - 424 páginas
...contrast are expressed, the emphatic words become very obvious ; as in the followr jng passage from Pope : '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 QVLT sense; Some... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 páginas
...Vida, v.705. Boileau, v. 714. Lord Roscommon, Sec. v. 725. Conclusion. AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM. PART I. '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' offence To tire our patience than mislead our sense : Some... | |
 | James Macpherson, Archibald M'Donald - 1805 - 308 páginas
...genius as to write well. The thought is taken from the first lines of Pope's Essay on Criticism. " "Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill " Appear in writing, or in judging ill; " But of the two, less dangerous is th' oflence " To tire our patience, than mislead our sense.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 316 páginas
...them, by the ancients, t'. 141—180. Reverence due to tin ancients, and praise of them, c. 181, &c. 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 páginas
...licences, and the use of them hy tbe ancient!.— Reverence due to the ancients, and praise of them. s hard to say if greater want of skill "- Appear in writing or in jndging ill; But of the two less dangerous is the' offence To tire our patience than mislead our sense... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 páginas
...licences, and the use of them by the ancients.— Reverence due to tke ancients, aad praise of them. 'Tis hard to say if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill ; But of the two, less dangerous is the' offence To .tire our patience than mislead our sense ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 páginas
...licences, and the use or them by the ancients. — Reverence due to the aucients, and praise of them. 'Tis hard to say if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill ; But of the two, less dangerous is the' offence To tire our patience than mislead our sense j... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 páginas
...by the ancients, ver. 140 to 180. Reverence due to the ancientS| and praise of them, ver. 181, &c. TIS hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in jndging ill; But of the two, less dangerous is tu* offence To tire our patience, than mislead our sense.... | |
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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... 
