...track. Great wits sometimes may gloriously offend, 11 And rise to faults true critics dare not mend; From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art, 155 Which, without passing through the judgment, gains The heart, and all its end at once attains....

...common track. Great wits sometimes may gloriously offend, And rise to faults true critics dare not mend; From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art, Which, without passing thro' the judgment, gains The heart, and all its end at once attains. In prospects...

...facts and style. No translation would do it justice. The good abbot does indeed " From settled rules with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art." The dignified, though unpretending, simplicity with which he breaks his way through the little restraints...

...genius — " Great wits may sometimes gloriously offend, And rise to faults true critics dare not mend ; From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art." This degree of license, which Pope has very properly allowed in respect to the rules of criticism,...

...genius — " Great wits may sometimes gloriously offend, And rise to faults true critics dare not mend ; From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art." This degree of license, which Pope has very properly allowed in respect to the rules of criticism,...

...exemplilies : Great wits sometimes may gloriously offend, And rise to faults true critics dare not mend ; From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. Essay on Criticism. St. Paul's—eXajjio-TOTifor itatrui -rut ayiut—is a beautiful passage of the...

...common track. Great wits sometimes may gloriously offend, And rise to faults true critics dare not mend: From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art; Which, without passing through the judgment, gains The heart, and all its end at once attains. In prospects,...

...that license is a rule. Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, May boldly deviate from the common track. From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach ol art, W T hich, without passing through the judgment, gams The heart, and all its end at once attains....

...Authors, 'tis trap, may gloriously offend, And faults commit true critics dare not mend. From common rules with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art."' So, the rumour of the new country edition had come to town, magnified from one to many thousands! The...

...fancy, and notwithstanding the encouragement to erratic courses held out in the familiar couplet — " From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch...stockings ; " and the spell was not completely broken until the 19th century, when Sir Walter Scott inspired the taste for metrical tales of passion and...