...scorn to take offence, That always shows great pride or little sense: Those heads, as stomachs, arc not sure the best Which nauseate all, and nothing...men of sense approve : As things seem large which we man. PR E SCOTT. THE UNIVERSAL 1'llAYER, FATHEK of all! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint,...

...pleas'd too little or too much ; At ev'ry trifle scorn to take offence, That always shows great pride, or little sense ; Those heads, as stomachs, are not sure...best, Which nauseate all, and nothing can digest. Good nature and good sense must ever join ; To err is human, to forgive, divine. POPE, Essay on Criticism....

...pleas'd too little or too much ; At ev'ry trifle scorn to take offence, That always shows great pride, or little sense ; Those heads, as stomachs, are not sure...best, Which nauseate all, and nothing can digest. Good nature and good sense must ever join ; To err is human, to forgive, divine. POPE, Essay on Criticism....

...gauntlet now, but Goldsmith's (gantlope) is the correct word.— ED. ' 2 See ante, p. 306.— ED. 8 " Yet let not each gay turn thy rapture move ; For fools admire, but men of sense approve." POPE'S Essay on Criticism, 11. 390-1. — ED. little attention as they examine the faces of the passing...

...pleased too little or too much. At every trifle scorn to take offense, That always shows great pride, or little sense : Those heads, as stomachs, are not sure...digest. Yet let not each gay turn thy rapture move; 390 For fools admire, but men of sense approve : As things seem large which we through mists descry,...

...too little, or too much. 385 At ev'ry Trifle scorn to take Offence, That always shows Great Pride, or Little Sense; Those Heads as Stomachs are not sure...digest. Yet let not each gay Turn thy Rapture move, 390 For Fools Admire, but Men of Sense Approve; As things seem large which we thro' Mists descry, Dulness...

...winningly. She also reminded us, in a twentieth-century TEFLspecific interpretation of Pope, to "... let not each gay turn thy rapture move; / For fools admire, but men of sense approve" — that is, to be aware of the necessity of testing and evaluating several times under varying conditions...

...littie or too much. At every trifle scorn to take offence, That always shows great pride, or litde sense; Those heads, as stomachs, are not sure the...digest. Yet let not each gay turn thy rapture move, 390 For fools admire, but men of sense approve: As dungs seem large which we through mists descry,...

...enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. 8880 An Essay on Criticism And the women come out to cut up what remains Just roll on your rifle and blow out you 8881 An Essay on Criticism Some praise at morning what they blame at night; But always think the last...

...context; it comes fairly close to the tone. What the line means in context is valid (italics mine): Yet let not each gay Turn thy rapture move; For fools admire, but men of sense approve. Immature readers are apt to be carried away by mere cleverness of phrase or of conceit; better readers...