Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" May boldly deviate from 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 thro'... "
A New Translation of the Funeral Oration of His Eminence the Cardinal de ... - Page v
by Charles Frey de Neuville - 1744 - 92 pages
Full view - About this book

The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, Volume 1

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...
Full view - About this book

Miscellaneous Poems and Translations: By Several Hands. Particularly, I ...

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,...
Full view - About this book

Miscellaneous Poems and Translations, Volume 1

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...
Full view - About this book

Bibliotheca Technologica: Or, a Philological Library of Literary Arts and ...

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...
Full view - About this book

Dionysius Longinus On the Sublime

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....
Full view - About this book

Meditations and Contemplations: In Two Volumes, Volume 2

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...
Full view - About this book

Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged, Volume 79

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...
Full view - About this book

The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Juvenile poems

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)...
Full view - About this book

The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Volume 1

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)...
Full view - About this book

Dionysius Longinus On the Sublime: Translated from the Greek, with Notes and ...

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...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF