| Alexander Pope - Criticism - 1717 - 468 pages
...that Licence is a rule. Thus PegafuSj a nearer way to take, May boldly deviate from the common track. Great Wits fometimes may glorioufly offend, And rife to faults true Critics dare not mend ; * Neque tarn fanfta funt ifta Precepta, fed hoc quicquid ejij Utilitas excogitaiiit } Nun negalo... | |
| English poetry - 1720 - 302 pages
...licence is a rule.^/^ Thus Pegnfus, a nearer way to take, May boldly deviate from the common track. Great wits fometimes may glorioufly offend, And rife...critics dare not mend; From vulgar bounds with brave difordcr part, And match a grace beyond the reach of art, Which, without paffing thro' thejudgment,... | |
| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1722 - 294 pages
...that licence is a rule. Thus Pegafas, a nearer way -to take, May boldly deviate from the common track. Great wits fometimes may glorioufly offend, And rife...grace beyond the reach of art, Which, without paffing thro' the judgment, gains The heart, and all its end at once attains. In profpedb, thus, fome objefts... | |
| Benjamin Martin - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1737 - 720 pages
...Genius. Mathematical and Me cbani ••»/»> r-'-i.'>/u*t <>1 £/}ttialft G.cmmaranJ Of CRITICIS M. Great Wits fometimes may glorioufly offend, And rife...Critics dare not mend, From vulgar Bounds with brave Difbrdcr part, Andfnatcb a Grace beyond the Reach of Art. IF then Nature has liberally endowed a Man... | |
| Longinus, William Smith - Authors, Greek - 1743 - 256 pages
...every where boaft, &c.] So Mr. Pope, in the Spirit of Longinus : Great wits fometimes may glorioitfy offend, And rife to faults true critics dare not mend...brave diforder part , And fnatch a grace beyond the rules of art ; Which, without pajfmg thro' the judgment, gains The heart, and all its end at once attains.... | |
| James Hervey - Meditations - 1748 - 328 pages
...fo finely defcribes ; and, while he defcribcs, exemplifies : , Great Wits fometimes may glor.ioujly offend, And rife to Faults true Critics dare not mend...; From vulgar Bounds with brave Diforder part, And fcatch a Grace beyond the Reach of Art. on Criticijm. St. Paul's— ~ — lAo^irVlif®' wailu> tai... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1788 - 738 pages
...wifli them away. How ftrikingly does it exemplify what Pope fays in his Eflay on Criticifm, 1. 159. Great Wits fometimes may glorioufly offend, And rife to faults true Critics dare not mend. From the many notes fubjoined to the other poems, various infiances of the Editor's labour, erudition, and... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1751 - 236 pages
...our eyes, -j Which out of nature's common order rife, C The Qiapelefs rock, or hanging precipice. 3 Great Wits fometimes may glorioufly offend, And rife to faults true Critics dare not mend. 1 60 But tho' the Ancients thus their rules invade, (As Kings difpenfe with laws themfelves have made)... | |
| Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 240 pages
...our eyes, ^ Which out of nature's common order rife, y The fhapelefs rock, or hanging precipice. 3 Great Wits fometimes may glorioufly offend, And rife to faults true Critics dare not mend. 1 60 But tho' the Ancients thus their rules invade, (As Kings difpenfe with laws themfelves have made)... | |
| Longinus, William Smith - Authors, Greek - 1752 - 242 pages
...Theocritus rather than (j) Tho' they cannot every where boajl, &c.J So Mr. Pope, in the fpirit of Longinus: Great wits fometimes may glorioufly offend, And rife...brave diforder part, And fnatch a grace beyond the rules of art ; Which, without paffing thro' the judgment, gains The heart, and all its end at once... | |
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